I ❤️ NY || New Year’s Poem for 2023 || Glen Scrivener

What counts when you’re counting down? Time Square, New York Written and performed by Glen Scrivener Produced and edited by Thomas Thorogood Additional New York footage from Pexels Music: 'Longing For More' by Caleb Etheridge WORDS // What counts when you’re counting down, When another year comes rolling round, When we come to town in graduation gown For the class of ‘22, And now the year is through: No refunds, and no reviews, No rewinds, and no re-dos, And some may choose to now take stock But nothing — NOTHING — will stop this clock. We didn’t vote, we did not agree Ready or not it’s 23, then 24, then 25, If we’re still alive. This is the game we’re all born playin’, Some years you’ll lose, some years you’ll gain, But nothing — NOTHING — will stop this train. What counts when you count your days, from midnight? We haven’t always. The Bible starts with evening then, At dawn, the dark’s devoured again. But these days we appraise the blaze as a phase. And midnight to midnight frames our ways. We begin in the dark and end in the gloom As though the sun could be entombed. As though the light could be consumed And with that thinking all assume Our onward march is surely doomed. But what if it’s gonna be alright? What if the future’s blazing bright? And we’re headed fierce to dawning light? What counts when we count our years? This here’s the number to calm our fears: Twenty Twenty Three AD, or to make a full record: The two thousand and twenty third year of our Lord. What we count is HIS domain. The One best known for being slain, Is One that death could not contain. And he begins the clocks again. He’s the driver of this train. And nothing — Nothing! — will stop his reign. Through the nighttime into day, Resolute his onward way. And so with him you need not fear: It’s always and forever a Happy New Year. LINKS// Subscribe to our main YouTube channel for short reaction videos, storytelling and podcast clips: https://www.youtube.com/SpeakLifeMedi... Subscribe to The Speak Life Podcast YouTube channel for our long-form content: https://www.youtube.com/@TheSpeakLife... The Speak Life Podcast is available wherever you get your podcasts: iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast... Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6RTY21m... Amazon: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/e03... Speak Life is a UK based charity that resources the church to reach the world. Learn more about us here: https://speaklife.org.uk/ CONNECT// Are you a creative Christian? Would you like to join us for a day, a week or 10 months? Find out more here: https://speaklife.org.uk/foundry Discord is an online platform where you can interact with the Speak Life team and other Speak Life supporters. There’s bonus content, creative/theological discussion and lots of fun. You can join our Discord here: https://speaklife.org.uk/give/ Social Media: facebook.com/speakLifeuk/ twitter.com/speaklifeuk/ instagram.com/speaklifeuk/ tiktok.com/@speaklifeuk