Technically, the first day of January is just another day on which the sun rises and sets, the natural cycles run their natural courses, and we people wake up, eat, breathe, do our things and go to sleep. Were January merely the thirteenth month, its first day would not be terribly significant. But the opening up of a new year is a psychological cleaning of the slate for many of us. Not only do we enjoy special New Year’s events as part of the holidays, but also we make resolutions to be carried out in the year about to begin.
On the Saturday religion page of a local newspaper, there appeared a pastor’s announcement of a special Church service to be held the following Wednesday. When Wednesday came, the only person to appear for the service was the Church sexton, a huge man who weighed almost three hundred pounds. The following Saturday, the sexton was astonished when he read in the religion page that…
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