The new year
Some old advices for the new year
“
With
the new year,
we need new
eyes
I love going into second
hand stores and looking for
old books for inspiration and
recently I found an interesting
devotional book. It´s written
in 1935 by a man who called
himself Theo Doros, but the real
name of this Swedish preacher
was Lantz Oskar Theodor.
The book title translates to
”The Seven Paragraph’s Book everyday advice and weekend
ideas.”
I like this book a lot and
every devotional is written in
seven paragraphs. The explana-
tion he gives is this:
”Why seven paragraphs? Well,
it’s only a whim. But the number seven is sacred and often
occurs both in the Bible and in
nature. Count the stars of Big
Dipper! I like the number seven.”
-Theo Doros
The first seven paragraphs in
the book are about how to greet
the new year and these advises
is working today as well as 75
years ago. So I want to present
to you, ”7 new year wishes” for
2016, inspired by Theo Doros.
When I was working on the
translation I added some Bible
verses that spoke to my heart
7 New year wishes
1. Fresh eyes.
With the new year, we need new
eyes. We need clear-sighted
eyes to perceive things correctly, it is only love that enables
us to see the procedures inside
events.
“The eye is the lamp of the
body. So if your eye is sound,
your entire body will be full of
light.” Matthew 6:22
2. New ideals.
With the old year the old ideals should be put behind us as
well. But without ideals we are
neither able nor willing to live.
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