FIRST DAY.......

"Be the reason someone smiles. Be the reason someone feels loved, and believes in the goodness in people..."-Roy T. Bennett

"And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been...." -Rainer Maria Rilke

     "Without faith , nothing is possible. with it, nothing is impossible.."

                          -Mary McLeod Bethune

"Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365 book. Write a good one..." -Brad Paisley

"And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love..." 

- 1 Cor 13:13

"For last year's words belong to last year's language. And next year's words await another voice..." 

-T.S. Eliot

      "We love because He first loved us...." -1 John 4:19

"You do not find the happy life. You make it..." -Benjamin Franklin

"You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden..."

                             -Matthew 5:14

"Three hundred and sixty five sunrises to start over...." -E.McD.

"Be gutsy. Hold onto that grace...." -John Piper

"Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year's prayer, not a resolution. I'm praying for courage...." -Susan Sontag

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"So I close my eyes to old ends, and open my heart to new beginnings..." 

                                                                                                                    -Mandy Hale

"You really have to let go of everything and say, God your will, not mine.." 

                                                           -Danny Gokey

"Celebrate endings.....for they precede new beginnings...."

                      -Jonathan Huie

"The object of a New Year is not we should have a new soul..." -Gilbert K. Chesterton

"You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step...." -Martin Luther King

"God is so good to give us new days and New Years , since He knows we need to start many times over.." 

                           - Lacey Sturm

Photographs 2025                         Happy New Year....