When I woke up this morning to make coffee, I did a double take when I looked out the window. Where's the Statue of Liberty and the boats? Where's Manhattan? Snow is coming down again, swirling and dancing outside my window, but beyond the construction site below I only see white. In his marketing blog this morning, Seth Godin referenced a post he wrote 10 years ago about the end of the 90's. The paragraph I liked best is when he turned his focus from looking back to looking ahead:
The thing is, we still live in a world that's filled with opportunity. In fact, we have more than an opportunity -- we have an obligation. An obligation to spend our time doing great things. To find ideas that matter and to share them. To push ourselves and the people around us to demonstrate gratitude, insight, and inspiration. To take risks and to make the world better by being amazing.
And some words spoken over a hundred years ago by Henry Ward Beecher, a famous clergyman at the Plymouth Church here in Brooklyn Heights.
Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page. Take up one hole more in the buckle if necessary, or let down one, according to circumstances; but on the first of January let every man gird himself once more, with his face to the front, and take no interest in things that were and are past.
Dreams planted in your heart are there for a reason. Like the white space outside my window this morning, not seeing anything, but absolutely knowing that it's there, is what faith is all about. On the morning before a new year, am wishing everyone courage to follow whatever it is that's planted deep inside, and hope that the coming year brings much joy.
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