Welcome to the last week of the year!
In the west, the liminal time between December 25-31 is when it feels like everything is put on pause or slowed down in anticipation of New Year’s Eve. The holiday season is entering its final countdown and all the other major holidays done and over with (I am, of course, referring to Halloween).
Long ago during earlier iterations of The Skeptic’s Inspirational, I decided that the last seven days of the year should focus on hope and renewal, and that decision has stuck, even when the rest of the project was completely overhauled several times.
Hope can be a dangerous drug, but I think it is similar to salt or even oxygen: critical for survival, but toxic in large quantities. It is important to remember that hope is a motivator, the thing that gets you out of a slump and into action. If all you do is wallow in hope, you will eventually drown in it. With that in mind, what I have tried to do in these final seven entries in the Inspirational is to provide you with the motivation to act on the hope you feel (or find!) as you enter the next yearly cycle of life.
Please enjoy these quiet days… or, if they aren’t quiet, I hope they are restorative. It’s time to look ahead with the courage, confidence, and hope to keep making plans, stay strong, and be courageous no matter what the future holds!
Thank you so much to everyone who read, shared, and commented on the daily entries I posted throughout 2025. This has been a long-running project, which took up a lot of time and energy, and I appreciated hearing from you all so much!
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