Happy New Year to all my readers!
2016 proved to be the year of the impossible made possible.
The Brexit vote, the Cubs winning the World Series after 108 years and Donald Trump’s election are only three such examples. We lived through ground-breaking history this year.
Many people — especially agnostics — commented online that the Hand of God was all over various events that took place. Some of those people returned to the Church. Others, previously unchurched, converted. (The best anecdotal evidence can be found in comments at The_Donald.)
2017 looks even more exciting with regard to change and a break with the past. Light will shine on darkness. Those guilty of lying, malfeasance and indecency will be exposed and shamed. Many God-fearing people will be stunned by what they see in the news. The evil of the past revealed — and the power of the good to come — will cause scoffers to repent.
Therefore, I look forward to the New Year for the first time in decades.
I pray that divine grace and the wisdom of the Holy Spirit imbue and guide each of us in the year ahead. May God bless us all.
Churchmouse Campanologist 
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December 31, 2016 at 12:42 am
churchmouse
Another weird event was Carl Dutting, 29, a retail clothing salesman from the Cote d’Azur, winning the French M6 semi-professional cooking programme Objectif Top Chef against an opponent who cooks in a famous restaurant in Tours and learned how to cook from his grandmother. Meanwhile, Dutting has learned in his spare time and is self-taught. He has learned how to mix textures and flavours on his own.
The four judges were among the finest MOFs (Meilleurs Ouvriers de France — Best Craftsmen in France), who all own restaurants and/or have Michelin stars themselves. Becoming a MOF requires a two- to three-day test of challenges and overall capabilities. It is not a light undertaking, by any means. Pastry and sweets chefs have even more extraordinary tests to meet, which often end in tears.
Carl Dutting will be participating in Top Chef in 2017. He will be competing against professionals who work in a normal everyday restaurant kitchen environment.
You could not make this scenario up.
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December 31, 2016 at 1:09 am
sunnydaysall
Thank you for your many Blessings, CM, for what will truly be an eventful 2017 indeed!! And I do look forward to your take on the coming events! It is so helpful to have a different point of view other than “always political” 🙂 I pray your New Year is Blessed and bountiful as well!!
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December 31, 2016 at 1:21 am
churchmouse
Thank you very much for your comment and good wishes for the New Year, sunnydaysall. I greatly appreciate them.
This is such a tremendous time in our history, as you know. I shall try to not be ‘always political’, but when it calls for it … I will be there! 😉
‘I can hardly wait’, as the decades-old song goes. 2017 will be so different and so much more rewarding in comparison to whatever we have experienced before! 🙂
For you and your family, I pray that continued blessings prevail.
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December 31, 2016 at 3:56 am
OIKOS™-Redaktion
Reblogged this on Die Erste Eslarner Zeitung – Aus und über Eslarn, sowie die bayerisch-tschechische Region!.
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December 31, 2016 at 3:38 pm
churchmouse
Thank you for the reblog. Glad you and your readers liked the post.
Best wishes to you — and to them — for a very happy New Year!
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December 31, 2016 at 9:36 pm
OIKOS™-Redaktion
Thank you. Have a nice 1st day in 2017, and we really like your posts with the useful information in it. Michael
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December 31, 2016 at 10:42 am
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December 31, 2016 at 3:42 pm
churchmouse
Thank you for the mention, Lecroix!
Hope you are enjoying New Year’s weekend in sunny climes as planned.
All best wishes for a happy, healthy, prosperous — and peaceful — 2017!
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December 31, 2016 at 12:45 pm
GP Cox
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January 1, 2017 at 1:03 pm
churchmouse
And a very happy New Year to you!
Another great graphic — thanks for posting!
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December 31, 2016 at 2:21 pm
georgeallen2007
And to you, churchmouse, and yours and your readership! In the love of Christ to all, Allen.
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January 1, 2017 at 1:04 pm
churchmouse
Thank you, Allen. Beautifully said and greatly appreciated!
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December 31, 2016 at 4:23 pm
lleweton
Thank you for your Blog, CM. The perspectives you cast and the insights you provide are very valuable, maybe unique. I hope, trust pray, that your optimism, is truly prophetic.
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January 1, 2017 at 12:55 pm
churchmouse
You’re most welcome, Llew. Thank you for the fulsome compliment, which I greatly appreciate. All best wishes to you and yours for 2017!
I am privileged to have you as a reader and have enjoy your comments over the past 6+ years.
Re the optimism, I cannot remember when I last felt happy about a New Year. It was probably in my early adolescence. I plan to enjoy it to the full. 🙂
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January 2, 2017 at 11:25 am
georgeallen2007
As ever, my pleasure! In the love of Christ, Allen.
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