The new year should come with freshness and innocence. Instead, I bring to it too much of the previous year and all its failings. My failings. My selfishness, people pleasing, insecurities.

One more Christmas ruined. Marriages that struggle and aren’t mine, but nonetheless break my heart. Brokenness in the world that seems too much to bear.

“He continued entrusting himself to him who judges justly” (I Peter 2:23).

I must continually entrust my brokenness to the Father who judges justly. And entrust the brokenness of others to him, too. I cannot carry this weight or fix what is broken. This new year demands that I give it up to him.

Entrust: “assigns the responsibility for doing something to someone; put something into someone’s care or protection.”

Entrust to him who judges justly.

Entrust to the Just Judge, the Father, the Shepherd and Overseer of my soul (I Peter 2:25).

Entrust.