A Happy New Year
A happy New Year we wish each other at the beginning of a new year – and I sometimes wonder whether I really want to have a happy one – “happy” sounds somehow superficial – and I am not sure if I always want to be a happy chappy day-in and day-out.
A Joyful New Year
I rather would go for a “joyful” wish – because joy seems to me much more deeper – joy is a basic condition seeing life through a special eye.
A Blessed New Year
But my sort of wish list tops with the phrase “a blessed year” – because it allows for all sorts of events and simply wishes that whatever comes up in the next 365 days may be taken as a meaningful building block for making me the person I should be. It acknowledges the up and down of a human life and experience and the wish to make sense of it all – sooner or later. Feeling blessed means also being a blessing for others – that should definitely be an aim for the year.
Because we need to be each others blessings and support in this crazy world, we need it for ourselves to survive the onslaught of madness which makes life exciting and draining at the same time.
A blessed New Year to all of you
Fr Stefan
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God, AIDS, Africa & HOPE 
Lieber Stefan !
Auf diesem Weg Dir vom Herzen ein gesegnetes, erfülltes ( mit sinnvoller Aufgabe) neues Jahr.
Deine
Agnes