Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.”
-Oprah Winfrey
Here it is, the end of another year. A year of great memories and probably some things we’d like to forget. We aren’t perfect–we are merely little lead tokens moving around the Monopoly board, hoping to “get it right,” to pick up some good properties and a Get Out Of Jail Free card in case we land in the wrong spot.
The simple quote by Oprah Winfrey is testament to a woman who in her enormous success still knew she needed to get it right. Born to an unmarried teenage mother, she spent her first six years living in rural poverty with her grandmother, Hattie Mae. Her grandmother taught her to read before the age of three and took her to the local church, where she was nicknamed “The Preacher” for her ability to recite Bible verses.
When you think about the fact that as a child, Winfrey was so poor, she often wore dresses made of potato sacks, it is stunning that she became the world’s first black billionaire.
Now we are presented with a spanking new year. The Word says that God is no respecter of persons. If He can raise Oprah from the depths of poverty, He can work with our dreams as well. So we at UNITE INDY offer this prayer as we celebrate another chance to get it right, for ourselves and all our partners:
Thank you Lord for this new year, for all the potential it holds.
Come and kindle in us a mighty flame
So that in our time, we may see the wonders of God.
Amen!
May God richly bless all your moves in 2020, and may you never land in the wrong spot,
Jim
“…With God, all things are possible” – Matthew 19:26
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