These Are My JOTtings, Part #2

New Life: January 8th, 2023

Daily life: Again we wake.
Newness, always seen.
Not one thing from us can take
the wonders, that have been.

New Year's Life: The Lord hath given.
Find in Him all peace.
First month's grace we now are livin'
t'ward Hope's new release.

Eight days in the number's plain.
New life meaneth this,
"Seven is completest gain.
Eight beginning's kiss."

In 23 we've 12 month's scroll
to write new hopes and goals.
New life can live within the soul.
It's Christ's blest gifted whole.

In Him our old, dead things are past.
In Him the new has come.
Salvation Joy forever lasts
in ev'ry part, and sum.

by Jay O’Toole
on January 8th, 2023