Our security is in him - not in a past that we can't recapture anyway. Our future is a future in God - so there is nothing to fear in it. Our future is a hopeful one. The New Year is a time of promise. It is there that God's promises will be fulfilled in us and in this world.
Tonight is a time for remembrance.
It is a time to remember God's faithfulness, as well as our own mistakes, so that we can learn from them. It is also a time for repentance, to walk a new path, a way that is closer to the kingdom, a time for dedicating ourselves anew to God's work. It is a time for dreaming, for envisioning, a time for hope, a time for planning. We don't know. But we do know that it belongs to God.