Happy New Year 2022!

By Klaus Doring

With 2022 knocking on our doors, there is no better way to remember your special friends and family members than with a thoughtful message or a Happy New Year card.

The beginning of a new year is the time to let go of old grudges and old worries and to turn over a new chapter of life. With 2021 coming to an end, people are eager to celebrate the start of something new.

However, celebrations are likely to be muted this year as the pandemic continues to ride the Omicron wave. Across the country, several restrictions have been put in place to slow the spread of the highly infectious Omicron variant of Covid-19.

In such a scenario, going out and partying may not be advisable, but that doesn’t mean you can’t celebrate the arrival of 2022.

Sweet words are easy to say; nice things are easy to buy; but good people are different to find. Life ends, when you stop dreaming; hope ends, when you stop believing; friendship stops, when you stop sharing. A good friend of mine sent me this quotation. I commented back: So very true and very well said!

A new year has just begun. We’re thinking back. We deleted friends and connections. Some mutual friends – not only on Facebook – didn’t remain as mutual. Some good new relationships have begun and made possible because of a mutual acquaintance.  Or, we’re looking forward to renewing relationships. Some seasonal greetings brought back special memories.

Keep in mind, our life is borrowed – from God. This is going to be a little bit complicated now, so keep going. No rental charges are collected from us. Many of us have forgotten this and live life to the fullest. Our life is equal to a book from a library that lends one. But how insatiable and unbearable are we in disdainful acting towards life and therefore to ourselves?

Life seems to be nothing, just being ready to riddle one with bullets. Life seems to be nothing, just being broken through indifference and unreliable and immoral behavior. Life seems to be nothing for those people who don’t understand cries from the heart of other people around them – cries for their hearts and families, for justice and for many other things.

Life with all its ups and downs, is just a loan, but for many of our fellow creatures it just seems to be nonsense to be littered like a dump. And, if people try to survive, especially during these days, and if they just experienced (once more!) indifference, arrogance, ignorance or cheating by whomever – they will give up!

I can assure you that every one of us can at first help in prayers and in reading the bible. “Proverbs” is the probably most down-to-earth book in the bible. Its teachings prepare you for daily life, the street and the marketplace, but not for the schoolroom.

The book offers warm pieces of advice you get; practical guidance for making your way on earth. Proverbs covers any kinds of questions you might have right now. Anybody can relate to the generalities of Proverbs, because this book simply tells how life works most of the time.

“Let’s enjoy every single loophole in law?” What a sad and fatal attraction! This shouldn’t be the beginning of the new year 2022!

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