I know that you are probably wondering what this house has to do with new beginnings. No, it’s not the house that I currently live in. It is the house that I grew up in. I took that photograph this past summer when I was driving through my old neighborhood. I was too nervous to take a closer picture so this will have to do.

This is where I had my beginning as a boy. I lived in that house and roamed that neighborhood from the beginning of my life until I moved away to college. During my senior year, my parents moved away and I no longer lived there. It was strange. I could no longer call that house my home. I could no longer pull up in the driveway and run in the front door. Those days were over.

A few months later I had graduated from college and moved into my first home of my own. It was a very small apartment in the country with bright red counter tops and paper thin walls. It was certainly no show place, however, it was mine. It was a new beginning.

There are many out there who decide to give themselves a “new beginning” at the turn of a new year. Perhaps you made some “New Years Resolutions” and endeavor to keep them. I hope that they were realistic and reachable. If you have failed already, give yourself a new beginning right now. Don’t wait until your birthday or a new year…do it now!

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Have a Prosperous, Healthy, and Joyfilled New Year!

Your Nashville Friend,

Thom