The World About To Turn

"and the world is about to turn"

In the United States, we celebrate the “new year” on January 1 st of each year. This arbitrary
date has enormous practical significance in planning our daily lives. It also marks the time when we
put away the Christmas gifts, take down decorations and decide what to do with the leftovers. In our
daily lives, January 1 st is New Year’s Day. But there are other “new years.” Our Christian church year
begins with Advent, usually around the first of December. Jews celebrate Rosh Hashanah in
September-October whereas the Chinese Lunar New Year is celebrated in January-February. Cycles of
life, of seasonal work are familiar to us and we choose to mark one cycle of earth’s revolution around
the sun as a way to acknowledge the passage of time.

Read the Sunday Service by Joy Barnitz at SwedenborgianCommunity.org