Start the year right by acknowledging all that we have comes from a higher power, who has chosen us.
In Life of the Beloved, Henri Nouwen encourages us to reclaim an awareness of God's love and the fact that we are each chosen by Him, rather than allow others to "determine whether we are chosen or not" and find ourselves "caught in the net of a suffocating world that accepts or rejects us according to its own agenda of efficiency and control".
As we gathered together this new year's evening at the ICPE Singapore HQ to give thanks for the graces experienced in 2007 and to offer up a new year resolution, we did just that.
A community of women, we prayed for each other as each woman came before the Holy Family to offer up her unique gift of resolve and her gratitude.
No celebration is complete without eating so we dipped and munched our way through an incredible spread of food laid out around the steamboat. Finishing the feast with a dessert of orange cake and ice cream. Yum!
Conventionally we mark time in seconds, hours and days, weeks, months and years, but we'd do well to remember what Nouwen goes on to say:
"Our preciousness, uniqueness and individuality are not given to us by those who meet us in clock-time - our brief existence - but by the One who has chosen us with an everlasting love, a love that existed from all eternity and will last through all eternity. "
So let us live 2008 in His time. Walking in His light.
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