New York City held what they called a Good Riddance Day. What you would do is get rid of bad things in your life with the help of a shredder. People shredded things like bad grades, exes, etc. What a wonderful idea!

Instead of holding onto old pains like shards of glass these folks got the opportunity to get rid of them.

Makes me wonder ... what would you get rid of?

These are numbered in the order I would get rid of things...

1. Old pains caused by incidents 5-20 years ago. Goodness, the clothes I wore that day don't fit anymore why should the old hurts hang around getting monumental in porportion?
2. New pains caused by incidents 2 weeks or 2 hours ago. For the exact same reason.
3. The stuff hanging around in my dining room. The rest of the house isn't too bad. Why the dining room?

All of the things listed above is workable. Some of it is physical labor; some of it is forgiveness, mercy and compassion.

God, help me to show forgiveness, mercy and compassion to each person I meet or know today. That includes myself by just letting go of old pains and moving on.

Happy New Year folks!