Happy everyone else's New Year

Since the local New Year celebration here will take place in February (to immense and eardrum blowing fanfare), the regular calendar New Year passes with mere polite acknowledgment. Rumors of fireworks proved false. But then, with the amount of electricity throbbing through this city at night right now, fireworks would probably not even show up against the night sky and only turn this urban light show into more of a giant fire hazard than it is at present. We contented ourselves to ascend to the roof of our apartment complex and take in the brilliant skyline before giving warm hugs and wishing one another a Happy 2011. Anticlimactic? At first blush, yes. But if you think about it, as one measure of time passes into another we are remembering the works of God -past present and future - in our lives and our world from a rooftop in Asia overlooking a vast glowing foreign city full of souls that our God has sent us to bring into His eternal Kingdom for His everlasting and ineffable glory. Anticlimactic? Hardly. Perspective is everything.