Emphasis Preaching Journal

As the end of the old year draws near, and as the dawn of a new year begins to break, we think about change. You wake up one morning, and you get out of bed and look in the mirror. Doesn't there seem to be a little more gray? And perhaps that wrinkle over there is new?

You think back to last summer, to your weekly tennis game, and you remember noticing that things didn't move in quite the same way. There's not quite as much mobility in that arm. And not quite as much oomph in your serve.