OzThoughts New Year’s Eve (Wednesday 31st December, 2008)

OzThoughts New Year’s Eve (Wednesday 31st December, 2008)

An Australian department store had the motto "While I Live I'll Grow”. People who have lived in Sydney would have known already that the store was "Anthony Hordern's", their symbol "an acorn and a mighty oak". The motto is said to have been inspired by a huge English Oak near Picton, outside Sydney. I am told the tree died long ago. So did the department store.

Have we lived and grown in this past year? As we come to the end of another year I have been thinking about this past year. How will I assess it? Was it just another year, repeating the things of other years or was it a year in which I grew in knowledge and spiritually?

Each of us have to do our own assessment. We stand before a mirror looking at ourselves. We also stand before others and they assess their relationship with us in each encounter. Most of all we stand before God.

It is in standing before God that the externals, and the excuses are stripped away and He looks right at the heart of our life.

Psalm 24 (The Message)
1-2 GOD claims Earth and everything in it, GOD claims World and all who live on it.
He built it on Ocean foundations,
laid it out on River girders.

3-4 Who can climb Mount GOD?
Who can scale the holy north-face?
Only the clean-handed,
only the pure-hearted;
Men who won't cheat,
women who won't seduce.

5-6 GOD is at their side;
with GOD's help they make it.
This, Jacob, is what happens
to God-seekers, God-questers.

7 Wake up, you sleepyhead city!
Wake up, you sleepyhead people!
King-Glory is ready to enter.

8 Who is this King-Glory?
GOD, armed
and battle-ready.

9 Wake up, you sleepyhead city!
Wake up, you sleepyhead people!
King-Glory is ready to enter.

10 Who is this King-Glory?
GOD-of-the-Angel-Armies:
he is King-Glory.

[Look and listen: http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=dBfEGETyGjs ]

So This Is Christmas

So this is Christmas
And what have you done
Another year over
And a new one just begun
And so this is Christmas
I hope you have fun
The near and the dear one
The old and the young

A very merry Christmas
And a happy New Year
Let's hope it's a good one
Without any fear

And so this is Christmas
For weak and for strong
For rich and the poor ones
The world is so wrong
And so happy Christmas
For black and for white
For yellow and red ones
Let's stop all the fight

A very merry Christmas
And a happy New Year
Let's hope it's a good one
Without any fear

And so this is Christmas
And what have we done
Another year over
And a new one just begun
Ans so this is Christmas
I hope you have fun
The near and the dear one
The old and the young

A very merry Christmas
And a happy New Year
Let's hope it's a good one
Without any fear

War is over over
If you want it
War is over
Now...
Author: John Lennon
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