It’s that time of year

We’re entering that time of year when people post their photo dumps—collages of vacations, engagement announcements, pregnancy reveals. And you sit there with that sinking feeling of another year gone by and another one closing in. Maybe you lost more than you gained. Maybe you thought this year would be different. Maybe these months felt more like lessons than blessings.

But walking into the new year without a ring, without a camera full of vacation photos, without anything shiny to show for it—none of that means your life was less than someone else’s. God doesn’t rank us by salary, relationship status, or how many continents we set foot on.

What He sees at the end of the year is simple: who opened their Bible, who kept Sunday holy, who clutched their rosary when their world was far from perfect.

And honestly? That should be what matters to us too. Because New Year’s will come and go—over and over again—but Heaven? Heaven is eternity.