What Does the Lord Require of Me?
"What does the Lord require of you, but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?" —Micah 6:8 The plastic tree is stored, the plastic candles are shelved, the entangled Christmas lights are crammed into illegal paper bags. The Christmas season is sadly over, but as much as I enjoy December's bacchanalian festivities, there is a part of me that finds the traditional final day of the Christmas season—New Year's Day—nearly as exciting. Closure brings forth newness : new friendships, new joy, new goals, new surprises, new growth, new liturgies. Some of my friends contend that my personality reminds them of Alan Milne's old, depressed, grey donkey Eeyore (would you be happy if your tail was detachable and had a pink bow wrapped around it?) But on New Year's Day, I feel more like the beloved, bouncing Tigger. New Years is throwing away that old stretched-out, tattered, fuzzy sweater and putting on a new, no fuzz, day-after sale