Another year begins

"What's that," You ask? Well, if you are a parent, student, teacher, or some combination thereof, you know what I mean. New Years is for watching Times Square on TV, drinking eggnog, and making fruitless resolutions. The real year begins in September. :-)

The bags are packed, lunches made, new school clothes bought, and tomorrow, it begins. And on that renewing note...

For in this hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what he sees? But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience. Romans 8:24-25

Hope is all we can have. It is neither half empty nor half full - it is full; it is just that we only see half the glass.