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Beginnings
By John Ingrisano
Jan 4, 2012 - 8:54:08 AM
I used to try to make something significant out of the end of one year and the ringing in of a new one … but it never really rang true. Years ago, I even tried, just once, the raucous New Year’s Eve celebrating in a noisy room filled with a few friends and a few hundred strangers. (I was okay with it until the lead singer in the band thought it would be great to drop his trousers and moon the audience at the stroke of midnight. The significance was lost on me.) These days, I no longer celebrate endings. Instead, as my Mother was wont to do, I usually (no, not always; I’m not perfect) ring in each new day, each fresh morning, each new beginning with a simple prayer: “Thank you, Lord.” (I even sometimes sing it loud and long.) It is a wondrous feeling to know I am loved as I am, forgiven for what I’ve done, guided to become -- a step or two in the right direction each day – the man God’s wants me to be. My point: Every day is a gift, an opportunity to start fresh, to begin anew. Even if yesterday was a bear and half, each new day is a … well, a new day. Embrace it. Cherish it. Most of all, take full advantage of it, this new beginning. – jri “Beginnings, no matter how welcome, are never altogether painless. They inevitably involve relinquishing the old to take up the new.” - Forward Day by Day (Reading for December 29, 2011) For those who know me, you know I admired my Mother for her strength and joy. Many days she was beaten down – though never defeated! – by health problems and the usual setbacks of life. And every morning, I would sit at the kitchen table and hear her descend the stairs, always with a loud greeting (“Good morning, my darling boy”) and often with an off-key song on her lips that could rattle the window panes and wake the dead. Her two favorite tunes: “Open up the windoooooooows, open up the doooooooors, and let the merry sunshine in!” or “I don’t know why I love you like I do. I don’t know why … I just do!” To this day, and she’s been dead now 30 years, I can hear that voice … and awake with joy in my heart at the beginning of a new day. God bless you on this and every new day.
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