Happy New Year! The new year brings an opportunity for newness, right? A new start, a clean slate, a new beginning, new changes.  What changes and challenges will we face in 2016?  How will we celebrate them, face them, survive them? Perhaps the better question: How we will grow through them? Scripture seems to give us a process God uses in shaping and molding us to be like Christ. Today let's allow God's Word to reveal God's ways of strengthening our faith and turning our eyes to the One who is the Author of all life (and life's stories).