This is the last Sunday of 2014. Next Sunday is the year of our Lord 2015. My guess is that for some of us that hardly seems possible. Wasn’t it just yesterday when we were in a tizzy over Y2K and the beginning of a new millennium? On the other hand, it seems like a life-time ago. Besides, according to the ballyhooed Mayan calendar, the world should have ended December 21, 2012. [And according to Hal Lindsay and The Late, Great Planet Earth and numerous Left Behind books by Tim LaHaye, we should all have been raptured by now.] So what are we doing getting ready to celebrate the year 2015?

I hope we are approaching the New Year with a positive attitude. It is said that Christopher Columbus kept a diary on his way to the New World. It was not an easy voyage. The men were on the verge of mut…