I heard about a man who had retired, and he got up one morning and the first thing he did was read the obituary column to find out who had died. Well, on this particular morning he read that column and the newspaper by mistake had put his name in the column and reported that he was dead.

He was not only shaken he was irate. He called the editor of the newspaper and fussed him out. Finally the editor said, "I'll tell you what we'll do. In the morning we'll put your name in the birth column and give you a brand new beginning."

There really is something exciting about new beginnings. There's something exciting about a new year because you know it is a new beginning. There's something exciting about starting a new job because you know it is a new beginning. There's something exciting about m…