It is upon us to make 2020 a truly Happy New Year

In but two days, 2019 will be gone and we will usher in a brand new 2020. As is the practice the world over, we have been and will be wishing one another a happy and blessed New Year. These wishes and prayers are predicated on the fact that God in His divine design, has set times and seasons, so that life is not one long dreary journey. Like a comma in a sentence, the dawn of a new day or a new week; the coming of a new month or new year, provide appropriate punctuation to life. Thus, every New Year offers us a distinctive chance to not only right previous wrongs, but to also step out into brand new adventures.

Yet, you and I have listened to speakers and readers who never pause at commas, nor stop and full stops. They are either too engrossed with their speech, or too engaged in their reading, and are oblivious of those little marks in a sentence that make comprehension easier and listening to a pleasure. The consequence is that, no matter how powerful the speech, or interesting the story, the listener is robbed of its import. The weary readily doze off into a snooze – too bored or too tired to stay on. The speaker’s message is thus lost, and the reader’s objective seriously compromised.