January 1, 2026. I wake up sluggish and slowly. Wait – I’ve already had my two cups of coffee? Sigh. I look around my dimly lit room. Boxes and papers and empty bags abound. I don’t need to walk into the kitchen to know I have a table full of crackers and leftover cheeses and cookies  out in the cold sunroom – a testimony to a full of feasting Christmas holiday that just won’t clean itself up on its own. 

But it’s a New Year, and I need a New Word. Actually, everyday. I need New Mercies every day. But somehow January 1 asks gently for a Word that can bear the weight of a new 365 days. So I turn to my book of Psalms where we always start. I will get to the rest of my Bible readings in a bit, but the Psalms seem to be the freeways of the whole Bible where the conversations take place. I take these roads to cry out to God, and he answers back. A dialogue of sorts. A conversation. 

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