It’s popular to say, “New year, new you!” in an effort to convince ourselves that this year will be the year to… lose that weight, reinvent yourself, change jobs, write that book.

New year, new YOU.

What about “new year, old you”? What if the old “you” is pretty much who you will be in 2015: with all your beauty and insight and brilliance… but also with all your hangups, weaknesses and baggage?

What then?

“New year, old you” is actually quite freeing. What might it mean to bring all of “old you” into the new year?

To accept freely how God has created you in all your wonder and all your mess?

And then to bring all of “old you” into this blank slate we call the new year?

What then?

(And skip the gym membership.)