Is this just another new year or another repeating year only with the next number? Enlighten? The light of Christ living within is? The star that brought nations together? Or, the dark selfishness of ours?

The eternal song sings for us…

So many things I can’t control So many hurts that happen everyday So many heartaches that pierce the soul So much pain that won’t ever go away How do we make it better? How do we make it through?
What can we do When there’s nothing we can do?

Division makes me important and whoever or whatever you are makes you lesser than me … as much as saying that you are meaningless…

Those hope-filled lyrics continues…

We can be kind We can take care of each other We can remember that deep down inside We all need the same things And maybe we’ll find If we are there for each other 
That together we’ll weather Whatever tomorrow may bring

We love going to war. We stopped numbering them and conveniently, silently call them “presidential wars.” (Whispering) For the good of our nation in spite of how many lost lives…both theirs and ours.

Then the enlightened song continues…

Nobody really wants to fight Nobody really wants to go to war If everyone wants to make things right What are we always fighting for? Does nobody want to see it? Does nobody understand? The power to heal Is right here in our hand We can be kind We can take care of each other
We can remember that deep down inside We all need the same things

“Me win and you lose,” mantras nations all around the world. “I dominate and you subjugate” becomes our morning fear-filling news. That’s right, begin your morning with coffee and watch talk of destruction of everyone’s life…spirit, heart, mind, and soul…all promulgating their own, selfish, always-right, self-centered lives.

And that promising, light of faith’s music continues…

And maybe we’ll find If we are there for each other That together we’ll weather Whatever tomorrow may bring And it’s not enough to talk about it Not enough to sing a song
We must walk the walk about it You and I, do or die, we’ve got to try to get along

The Original Sin of idolatry from which we were all baptized now becomes the sin of nations and so many leaders…” me first,” identical to a two-year-old demanding more oatmeal.

Do we hear, once again, but now only with deaf ears…?

We can be kind, We can take care of each other, We can remember that deep down inside…We all need the same things And maybe we’ll find, If we are there for each other
That together we’ll weather, Whatever tomorrow may bring

Epiphany…insight, awareness, inclusion…light…lived with compassion, love and kindness…light.
Only piously spoken in church or living deeply within our hearts, living within our elected leaders, praying and living throughout our sacred, God-given created world?
Hearing the song’s conclusion is the true, bright, ever-burning presence and love of Christ as any single day begins or any new year beings us.

And maybe we’ll find, True peace of mind
If we always remember…We can be kind

(Song: “We Can Be Kind,” Nancy LaMott, hearable on YouTube)