Let me be amongst the first to wish you a happy new year of much joy and inner prosperity!
I have been waiting in great anticipation for 2012. I have very good feelings that it will be a great year for me and for us as a family.
Last year was NOT so. (For me personally.)

Now that it has passed I can be honest and say, “Phew!” It WAS not fun for me in many ways. I stick my tongue out to its memory!
Things I desperately wanted did not happen. Things I fervently prayed for were not released. 2011 I am glad to see the back of you!

And so we begin again.
A fresh page is given. New hopes to be shared and new resolutions to attempt.

A few days ago I was hugely disturbed to read my prayer diary from the 4th January 2011. I read the entry with my breath held. It contained EXACTLY the phrases and words I was feeling almost a whole year later. That sense of having not grown, changed, progressed or developed hit me hard. High hopes were dashed and fresh ideas went stale before even being heard…

Like I said, not a good year.

But now new things are around the corner. I can start again. Pray again and try again.

I pray that 2012 contains much more for me, that I grow and develop in Christ and that I take others in that direction too.

Stay close to Jesus in this new year and it really will be all you hoped for.