Happy New Year...& Month, Week, Day, Minute, and Second.

I have to wonder what God thinks of humanity's labels on time. What I mean is, what does of He think of us diving time into sections of years? Months? Weeks? Days? Hours? Minutes, and seconds? I would think He doesn't think "At 3 o clock, I am going to make it rain."

Not to say he doesn't think about every single detail, and not to say that He doesn't take into consideration that we humans DO think in these divisions and labels of time; but I wouldn't think He Himself thinks, "It's 2013! Happy new year." But then maybe He would. He knew that someone was going to put a numerical label on a certain amount of time- He created that person.

Now that I'm done babbling, I guess I am just thinking how interesting it is that humans think January 1st is the official day to start over. Why couldn't you start over last summer? Why couldn't you start over yesterday? It's not bad that you didn't, it's just funny that humans resolve themselves on a specific day. We celebrate changing numbers every year, the changing number on the end of the "year" label.

What if we celebrated every changing minute? "It's 3:30! Happy new minute!" And one minute later, "It's 3:31!! Happy new minute!!" It's a crazy thought, and it might get really annoying to hear people celebrating every changing minute (let's just think about if we celebrated every changing second- hah!); but maybe it wouldn't be so bad.

Maybe we don't have to literally yell out loud the fact that we are currently in a new minute, but what if we celebrated life ALL the time- ALL of life's moments? What if we lived in the moment everyday like we live in the moment once the clock hits 12:00 on New Year's Day?

That would mean celebrating every KIND of moment- the good, the bad, and... the ugly, and the beautiful; because- in the end- they are all God's moments.

And it can be really hard to think about the fact that all the moments are God's moments. Especially moments where we find pride in something we accomplished on our own (or so we would like to think), or in the moments that make us forget God's presence and, once remembering His presence, only make us frustrated or upset with Him.

I know I have experienced both these moments in 2012- probably more than once.

But no matter how I have felt, whether I have wept, yelled, laughed, shook my head, jumped, smiled, feared, hid, or sang; He was always there. Always.

Tonight some friends of mine gathered around, had a good time, and then prayed for the new year. (Yes, I have very awesome friends.) We remembered the hard times and the great times, we wondered why God let certain things happen but knew in our hearts that He is powerful and knows what He is doing. We proclaimed Him ruler and holder of all things.

And that is enough. It's amazing to think that the chunk of the next 365 days is in His hands, too. And the next chunk, and the next chunk, and the next.

Happy new year, and happy new minute, and second; because God is in every moment and that is something to celebrate.