Hope for the New Year
An annual tradition
Note: the following is an updated version of an annual New Year’s message here at Timeless & Timely — usually one of the most frequented entries of the year.
“Hope is patience with the lamp lit.”
— Tertullian
The new year has arrived, with about as much celebration and dread that various factions can muster.
We wonder: Will it be a good year? A terrible year? Will I be able to break my bad habits and forge a new beginning?
It’s a time of year when hope grabs us by the throat, suggesting that the year ahead holds many possibilities, some of which are within our power to grasp.
Such hope typically takes the form of New Year’s resolutions.
We have the best of intentions, but the reality is these are gestures aimed at pleasing our logical selves. What we do (or don’…
