“We think we now know as we have been and will soon embark.
Will it be what has often already been, finding the still of the dark?
Is there hope that this year will be different, walking in a new way?
Uncertainty stands before the door of 2010 and welcoming that day.

Beyond that door are discoveries of self that will truly come about,
Things that could make us proud or some that could give us doubt.
With all the hardships caused by the greed and acts of selfish men
Are there places of truth and trust that we could live in peace again?

Now the rush, shopping, travel, deadlines and the weather mess,
Yearend sales and exchanges, all dragging us back into deep distress.
The call for us to usher in another New Year when midnight strikes,
The dress, the party, the hoopla, we must have only things we like.

We pass over the choices and the pain; the stuff that came with strife
Vows broken, promises gone, feelings diminished; only on with my life
Don’t want to see the pathways taken for what will or has come to be
It’s now where no satisfaction is other than what is set for just me

Years have passed, vows forgotten, feeling, polls taken to decide
What might have been if one prayed and consulted Him deep inside?
What consequences would have been avoided only praise instead
Here you are with pain and uncertainties just wanting to go to bed.

Choices maybe coming home to stay now shown through others
Trusting in the world and the words of my sisters and brothers
Now you’ve taught and accepted the lie that Eve had passed down
Seeing your hopes aloof and the fallacies of the world to drown

And as the New Year walks closer each and everyday
You continue to not see; listening to what others have to say
As Jobs wife was wrong , is it that it rubbed off on you
Doesn’t have to be that way as New Years comes into view.

You can make the choices or decide to rethink and change
Maybe hard to swallow, people may think you are strange
You don’t answer to the world and the lies you’ve been told
Sometime life calls for standing up and truly being bold

What does He say and what does He demand for you this day
Starting fresh with pathways to be set as 2010 is on its way
Think over what you are doing and what you have done
Only He can give you the answer, as words come from the Son

It’s not about what people say or what they think of you
It’s what you will say when He weighs the balance of what’s due
Spend some time and think and ponder; look and really see
Find the positives, be obedient and live where life is free!”

“Happiest Of “New Years” to You!”

Douglas Auld
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About the Author:
Douglas Auld
Artist, Painter, Poet and Writer
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