No Zombie New Year

No other date exemplifies “zombie” better than December 26th. There is no better way to exemplify the undead, shells that once held so much life now drained of all but the basest of impulses, than sagging Christmas trees and deflated snowman balloons. Looking around the day after Christmas can easily drain one of joy and hope.

Yet there is no better day on the calendar to truly look forward to life. We have just come off of celebrating the birth of Jesus, looking expectantly towards His second coming. Spring is in the air, a season of rebirth and renewal. The New Year is approaching, a time to refocus our lives towards more intention.

The choice, then is ours, as to whether we fall into the trap of becoming New Year’s Zombies. Do we allow ourselves to simply be driven by our impulses, filling temporary passions on that night and then waking up regretting and shambling the next day? Or do we take the opportunity to clean up some parts of ourselves we have allowed to mold throughout the year. We can either allow the zombie virus to further take hold, driving us deeper into a shadow of real life, or we can let the love of God fill us anew, prompting us to start the new year more alive than we have ever been.

Don’t stop believing, as Journey beautifully put it. Though the Christmas tree is dead, though that Mariah Carey CD is going back on the shelf for a while, it doesn’t mean your hope dies too. Even if the decorations seem like zombified husks right now, the feeling of joy they incite within us is far from dead.

Let this new year be one free from apocalypse! Let your new year’s resolution be to remain alive and joyful, remembering that the same love that drove God to send His Son to earth will carry you into the fresh colors of spring.

Have A No Zombie New Year!