In Our Weakness

When people think of New Year’s Eve, most of us picture a big party with lots of horn blowing and noisemaking. Certainly it is the most famous party of the year. Perhaps because it follows the stresses of the holidays and it is usually spent with friends rather than family. There is no pressure to exchange gifts and certainly nothing to return except a few bad habits. New Year’s has become like so many holidays in that the marketing grabs all the attention and the underlying meaning becomes the casualty of the celebration.

But have you ever thought about why we celebrate a New Year? We use time and the calendar in order to define changes. The difference between a one-year-old and a two-year-old is marked by time to describe their development. So after we are fully developed physically, the years more easily run together. What really makes 1976 different from..