Happy New Year! The California-Nevada Annual Conference has come and gone, appointing clergy to churches for a new year. All my adult life this has been the beginning of a new year of life and ministry, even though I’m now retired.                                                                  My new year will be set within 3 worship seasons that highlight living the Good News in ordered, ordinary days; looking toward God’s gift of resurrection and eternal life; and celebrating the birth of God-on-earth in Jesus. What a dramatic setting in which to write and live grateful, often joyful days.                                    What are your goals between now and next June? In what context will you try to live? Betsy