My friend Angela loves January. I am jumping on that bandwagon. I think she's got a point. January is a cool month (pardon the pun) because the expectations are very low. Pretty much we all simply expect to get through it. There are no January holidays, no special cookies to bake and exchange, no January gifts to buy, wrap, send or return. How wonderful! Happy, happy, happy January!

This year, we have the added advantage of being in a whole new decade. I heard some television personalities trying to decide one phrase to summarize the last decade. You know, like the nineties were the nineties. How do we refer back to the last ten years? The best of the lame choices was, get this, "the 0's." No, not the zeros, the "ohs." That's a stretch if you ask me. I am enthusiastically looking forward to the tens and don't really need a cutsies slogan for the o's. Is it just me?

My cousin Peter did a neat thing on Facebook. He did a personal review of the last ten years. I thought it was a great idea. His summary was something like this: "Got married, changed jobs, had a baby, changed jobs, had another baby." I was really inspired. I would follow his lead but I'm just too exhausted. Maybe in February. Will it be too late to review the o's in February?

The o's were filled with trial and triumph, love and loss, and everything in between. So for now, I am sticking with the apostle Paul who said,

"Forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forward to those things that are ahead..." (Philippians 3:13-14)

Thank you, Lord, for a new year.