It’s New Year’s Eve. The end of the 2024 year. How was your year? I hope you carried out what you set out to do. If you didn’t plan anything, that’s okay too. As humans there are going to be years when nothing happens, or too much happens, or it just is. Whatever it is for you, it’s FOR YOU.
Everyone’s life race is different. I’m not expected to run your race and you aren’t expected to run mine. What’s important is that you run your race that is meant for you.
I think about marathon runners. I admire them. They run for miles and miles, and I admire the stamina it takes to run and finish. The key word is finish.
I used to think it was how you started and NOT how you finished that was more important. I stand corrected. You see as a writer, I’ve often heard about how IMPORTANT the first few sentences of a start of book is because that is the hook. And, it is true to a certain extent. However, like a marathon runner, you have to continue the pace toward the middle and then finish at the end.
It’s not how fast you complete the tale in a novel, it is THE FINISH. The same applies to a marathon runner. Yes, most of them are running against a clock to set a world record, yada, yada, yada. For the runner at heart, he or she wants to finish, and finish strong because of all the time they’ve spent training.
And so, for some people, ending 2024 couldn’t come fast enough to get rid of. For others, it’s a sad ending because whatever goals and accomplishments have been set and completed, will now be missed. Most of us may fall somewhere in between.
Many will start the year with goals: exercise, health, travel, etc. That’s great, nothing wrong with that. Just finish what you start.
I’m reminded of two great scriptures from the Apostle Paul that I want to do. End 2024 with…
2 Timothy 4:7
I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.
So that I can begin 2025 with…
Philippians 3:13-15
Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. Therefore let us, as many as are mature, have this mind; and if in anything you think otherwise, God will reveal even this to you.
Finish the end and press on toward the beginning.
Happy New Year!
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