This first weekend of 2014 affords many of us an opportunity to hit “pause” on this busy opening week and to reflect, backward and forward, on our own lives.
Essential at the beginning of every new year is to set aside time to reflect on life, according to eighteenth-century slave-ship-captain-turned-pastor John Newton (1725–1807). This practice was embedded into his personal disciplines, and it emerged as a hallmark of his pastoral work. He penned new hymns and sermons and personal letters every year to urge his friends to take time at the unveiling of a new year to stop and reflect on life. Keep reading
Also see
Amazing Grace — a hymn for the New Year (1773!)
Amazing Grace - AMAZING GRACE
Through Many Dangers - Stained-Glass Window
Window at Olney Church - Ship at Safe Harbor
Photo: Cowper & Newton Museum, Olney, UK
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