A New Year

A new year has come.
The old one fades into the background.
Precious memories linger forever, sad ones fade away.

The future awaits you. Unshaped and waiting to be left upon your everlasting mark.
Peace will be created, hope restored, faith renewed.
Love will follow you, beautify you, help you, mark you. Forever.
Trust in love, for it trusts in you.
Become one with it, embrace it, touch it, feel it, live it.
Never to leave you, always by your side.
Always encouraging you as the years go by.

A new year awaits you. Ready to be embraced.
The unknown can be daunting, but it only remains unknown for so long.
Dozens unknowns have come and gone, no longer so.
One more to go, ready to be conquered, ready to be made known.

Don't be afraid of it. It has been beaten before, dozens of times already.
You will do it again, just the same.
Live your life, live the love given to you.
Don't be afraid of tomorrow, greater love awaits with the coming of dawn.
Don't live in the past, the greatest love yet lies on the road ahead.


Gerard Beekmans