In most years I view today as nonsensical and meaningless. We don’t celebrate new months day or new weeks day. Every moment in our lives is fleeting and will never exist again. Every single day is the first day of the rest of your life. Every second is the last time that second will ever exist.
This year is different. 2025 was such a trying and terrible year that I am happy to see it in the rearview and I am more than ready to get onto the next adventure or lack thereof. I don’t really want an adventure. What I want is stability. I want to wrap-up the leftover tasks from 2025 like getting the new properties rented and then move on to finding my foundation.
What I need in life in 2026 is grounding. I need to find or create a stable environment so that we can get through what comes next. Without stability nothing good can happen. We are all just tumbling chaotically towards our doom.
This past month I got my stress under control. Nothing is that much better, but I am not stressing about it. Stability is about eliminating the sources of stress. I think I can do that. I believe that there are only a couple ingredients missing in order to create that firm foundation to stand upon.
No matter what word I get handed at church this year my word of the year for 2026 is going to be stability. I am going to get things ordered so that I can step back, asses the situation, and understand the best path forward.
2025 was a disruption. It was a meteor crashing into my life and a personal struggle just to get through. 2026 needs to be a better year. Do theory is not a viable economic theory but I do believe that I am do some good luck.
For the last couple weeks I have been a beacon of minor misfortune. From my son’s back elbow breaking my glasses to cutting my finger while shaving. Small misfortunes haunted me in the last days of 2025. Maybe 2026 will bring small blessings. Nothing major, but just little things that help make life seem a little better. A dark cloud hung over 2025 and while the changing of the calendar does nothing to change our circumstances I hope that dark cloud begins to evaporate.
David Huzzard Writes 