Mon. Dec 23rd, 2024
New Year – a new start. It is wonderful to think that every New Year we can at least have time to reflect and review all that had happened the previous year. Failures and successes, happiness and sadness, victories and defeats, pains and exciting moments alike. One good thing about the New Year is the feeling that we can start all over again, regardless of what we’ve been through and the mess that we’ve done. There is always hope for a new day, a new year, and a new start. It is not too late to start afresh as long as we look forward and not backward. Move on, life must go on, press on, and be hopeful of the future. These are just few thoughts of reminders that I would like to share with you today. As long as we are here, as long as there is breathe in us – we can have hope for a brighter tomorrow, we can always start anew.
Don’t let your past ruin your future and spoil your present. Don’t let the things that happened days, months or even years ago haunt you today and stunt your growth in any area of your life. Don’t let your past define your future. Don’t let what you can’t undo derail you from what you can do today in order to change your future. Let me quote a popular line in Kung Fu Panda movie, “The past is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift, that’s why it’s called – the present.” Enjoy each day, make the most of everyday, regardless of what happened last year, leave it behind and start anew today and throughout this New Year. I just want to inspire you.

By Rommel Atanque

Rommel Santiago Atanque is an entrepreneur by profession and a Pastor/Missionary by calling and passion. He loves to inspire his readers and let them realize that in every trial there is a purpose; in every test a testimony; and with the right perspective in life, one can still be happy every single day! He also authored the Live a Happy Life Books. A series of humorous books that make a lot of sense. He also shares the Gospel in today's context and lets God's Word bring joy and laughter to his hearers. He wants them to know that listening to sermons is not boring much less an antidote for sleeplessness. Married for 22 years to Jeralyn Ortiz Palabrica-Atanque with two teenagers Roj Gabriel 18, and Lyl Mikael 16. They had been missionaries in Cambodia for 7 years and are currently based in Iloilo City, Philippines, pastoring Connect Church.