A New Year gives us the chance to take stock, to make fresh resolutions and to do things differently.

It is an opportunity well worth taking. The decisions we make – and stick to – can make all the difference in the world to us. So it makes sense to choose wisely what resolutions and decisions we will make for the year ahead.

How will we choose, since 2023 is likely to be especially challenging?

Maybe we just need to ask ourselves a simple question: what one decision, if I made it consistently and stuck to it, would make all the difference to my life or to someone else’s life?

We have just celebrated Christmas, the birth of Jesus Christ. In Jesus, God made a decision for us and for our flourishing. The reassuring fact is that having made that decision, God has stuck with it and sticks with us constantly.

With every good wish for 2023

Stephen