Goodness

 A good word to hold on to as the new year unfolds would be 'Good' or 'Goodness'. The crescendo moment of creation was that it was all "very good". It trickled down from the One who abounds in goodness, who is good to all, who gives good gifts and whose goodness endures. It doesn't stop following every day of our lives as we too create, recreate and procreate.

The heavenly heirloom is hewn with goodness from the star sprinkled skies to the clapping coasts; from the streams in the desert to the springs in the valley. There is nowhere that the Nature's voice doesn't reach. It reverberates from the hills to the mighty mountains from the shallow streams to the depths of the oceans, proclaiming the voice of Goodness. We too are called to show forth our good deeds, to add to our faith goodness and to goodness knowledge.....as we are bombarded with bad things these last days. 

Surely the pale horse has left the pavilion with Death riding on it, and the very Hell howling after it waging wars, heightening hunger and unleashing beasts.  While the sun continues to rise on both the evil and the good reminding us that a good reward awaits us beyond the river as the good good Father waits over the way.