While on January 1 we might quietly flip the page of calendar to greet 2012, it is a regular invitation to significant growth and change. And the fact that it can happen not only each year, but every day at any moment is truly God's grace. It is our chance for a re-birth with a clean slate, completely undeserved yet unconditionally given. All is needed is a simple yes and an open heart. In that spirit, we would like to extend a deep wish for a New Year filled with hope, love, and light to each of you.
We will be having our monthly NACAR Board Conference Call the middle of January. Please pray for us as we continue to plan for the upcoming Conference. We rejoice in you, our members, and look forward to seeing you in June.
Happy New Year!
The NACAR Board of Directors and the Management Team
My Symphony
by William Ellery Channing
To live content with small means.
To seek elegance rather than luxury,
and refinement rather than fashion.
To be worthy not respectable,
and wealthy not rich.
To study hard, think quietly, talk gently,
act frankly, to listen to stars, birds, babes,
and sages with open heart, to bear all cheerfully,
do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never.
In a word, to let the spiritual,
unbidden and unconscious,
grow up through the common.
This is to be my symphony.
This poem is in the public domain.
