Another year

We always seem to start a new year with such high expectations.  A new year, a new month, a new week, a new day; each one holds such promise, such anticipation of what might be to come. One of my favorite quotes from L.M. Montgomery is “Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”   Of course, we have to include that caveat: no mistakes in it 'yet'. Because we know there will be mistakes, there is no doubt of that. I cannot think of a single day in my life that did not include a mistake,  even those rare days that I would classify as 'perfect'.  How comforting it is to know that we can start each day, each week, each month, each year over again, with a brand-new, clean slate.
 ^"It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness." Lamentations 3:22-23King James Version (KJV)
No matter what we did yesterday, God forgives us over and over again.  Each and every time, He wipes the slate clean, and gives us another chance. We can start each day knowing that what we did yesterday, our failures and shortcomings, are not held over our heads. God does not throw our wrong-doings up in our faces, or remind us of them over and over. What mercy He shows us, when we do not deserve it!