Billy Graham writes some thought provoking words in his devotional; ‘Hope for Each Day’

“What are your thoughts as you look back over the past year? Was it a year of heartache and loss, tragedy and sorrow? Or happiness and joy, success and achievement? Or something in between? Do you close the book on this year with regret or with relief?

No matter what your answer is, I hope you will pause and prayerfully ask yourself two important questions.

• First, how do you think God looks on this past year in your life? Did it bring you any closer to Him? Did it expose any weaknesses or find you wandering from His way? Was He disappointed in your responses to its challenges?

• Second, what lessons will you take from this year into the next? What did God teach you? What did He try to teach you? What needs to change –and how will it happen?

Don’t be bound by the past and it’s failures, but don’t forget it’s lessons either. Like Paul, forget the past and press on in obedience to Christ.”

Have a truly blessed 2017.