A New Year is upon us. Welcome 2010!

I love January 1st. It symbolizes a new start, a fresh beginning, a new set of possibilities and opportunities on the immediate horizon. It’s a day to acknowledge accomplishments of the past year and a moment to consider progressive steps to take in the year to come.

Many of the editorial cartoons of recent days do not portray the last year as having anything good to remember. They depict devastating effects from the recession, joblessness, political failures, on-going war and more. The last year has been tough on millions of families around the world and continues to exact patience and perseverance and tax faith. But we must look ahead. We must not let the past dictate the future. We can find hope in knowing that solutions to troubles are forthcoming. Jobs will appear. Economies will strengthen. Credit markets will loosen. Hope and positive expectancy will flow once again. We can overcome, as the popular rally cry states.

There is a divine law of progress at work underneath the chaos and clamor of it all moving humanity toward sounder ideals and stronger moral underpinnings that serve to bless future political, social and economic decision-making. We will end up in a better place than we began.

This law of progress is at work in your life right now! Expect it to cause wonderful things to happen for you this year!

One never knows how answers may appear and what form supply may take.

A woman called me recently for spiritual help to find a new job, or another career that would lead to a new job. Her funds were running low. Her hope was too.

We talked about how God supplies all needs spiritually through ideas, inspiration, spontaneous appearances of blessing, and direction from the voice of wisdom directing one’s activities and other’s around that contribute to the surfacing of good. Supply doesn’t always come in the form of cash or a paycheck. But it does come one way or the other.

After our talk, she soon reported that she had been inspired to attend a conference for professionals in a field she wanted to pursue as a new career. During the conference there was a door prize drawing. She was the grand prize winner of a $2000 training package for getting started in this new career. Her mouth dropped when she heard her name called from the podium, she told me. It seemed unbelievable. An answered prayer in a most unexpected form! (She said I could share this story).

So, don’t materially outline what form you expect blessings to take over the next twelve months. Stay open on how God is going to supply your needs. That way, you’ll be most receptive to what God is sending to you.

The New Year is God’s year. It belongs to God, not to hopelessness, despair or discouragement. Claim your NEW year. Let go of the old—any heaviness, burden or fear hanging on from yesterday. It’s unnecessary baggage you don’t need to carry into the grand new adventure of 2010. The next 365 days are going to be fun, productive, profitable and very progressive under God’s guidance and direction. Claim this for yourself. Know it, and live it.

Happy New Year!