You can't do anything or go anywhere or read or watch anything right now without hearing that it is now 2014 and time for a fresh start! A blank slate. A new regime! EAT YOUR LETTUCE! As my husband's grandmother likes to say, "Whatever." I'm not being bitter or down. Quite the opposite. But I don't fall into the camp that makes vision boards, resolutions or pins ideas for a new year, new you. Instead, while I sit working on this first day back at school for the girls (OHMYGODTHEQUIET!), I relish the silence but still miss their fracas. I think about how this morning during my devotions I kept thinking and seeing the word, peace, float through my mind. I want it coursing through my heart even more this year than last. And last year was pretty great. I cannot … [Read more...]