Old things have passed away: behold, all things are become new. ~ 2 Corinthians 5:17(b) (New Matthew Bible)

It’s the dream of every New Year.
We’ll start over, do it right this time.
With a list of our good intentions,
often recycled from last year
and several years beyond that beginning.
But the magic of a new year failed before,
probably will again. At least without
the first part of the verse:
“Therefore if any person is in Christ,
he is a new creature.” But for most
of a hundred years, Recovery people have found
the new creature, new person can come
from an acknowledgement we are not supreme,
from any Higher Power greater than us,
even one we create by writing a description
of a Power we could respect, we could accept,
one to whom we could yield our will,
surrender our lives, hand over control.
It is the process of surrender that matters,
for I believe the creator of the universe
over centuries has answered to countless names,
and if our attitude reflects a new path,
a true surrender,  a single universal
Power Greater than we
stands ready to make us new again.