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Praise God For New Beginnings
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As we begin 2015, Molly compares two events in recent history to show how fruitless it is to worry about the future.
On New Year’s Eve of 1999, I was a brand new mother feeling a tad on edge about all the impending catastrophes that might take place when the clock struck midnight. Computers everywhere, we were cautioned by the media, could simultaneously crash en masse causing power outages, planes to fall from the sky, financial ruin, chaos, confusion and looting…do not forget the looting.
At 10:00 pm, nursing my newborn on the couch in our teensy one-bedroom Chicago…