As this New Year dawns, it can be the happiest of New Years for you if you realize that time of itself has little to do with the unfolding of your freedom to be your God-created Self. In fact, it isn't a time, a day, a month or a year that is really important to you. It is how you use time, how you use this new year. It is how you love and care for others.

You can view the new year, not as so many new days, but as new opportunities to find your God-bestowed awareness in joyous and selfless service to others.

This can be the new year in which you have the opportunity to show your individual love to others. Why not accept this new year joyously as God's chosen vessel so that you can express your selfless love?

By wisely using time you are using a gift of God wisely. Through this wise use of time you redeem time and gain a glimpse of your eternal nature.

W. Norman Cooper Seize the Day, page 1