With the start of a New Year we are reminded how we all long for both continuity and renewal: our same bodies and new diets, our same responsibilities and more sleep, our same needs and improved budgets. Where does this hunger to see our present condition made better come from? Could it be evidence that we are a part of a larger narrative? When God came to earth He started a new era called the Kingdom of Heaven. Today we consider how our longings for new beginnings is evidence of the present and coming Kingdom. And we are reminded to pray and live so that it may come on earth as it is in Heaven.