Contemplate the things you want to leave behind in the past year and what to carry with you into the new one. This isn’t only for sins, but events, ideas, obsessions, and anything that may weigh upon you. Symbolically, throw these into the water. If possible, find or bring a stick to write into the sand at the edge of the surf, those things you want to leave in the year past, and watch the waves take them away, literally and figuratively.

Contemplate the things you want to leave behind in the past year and what to carry with you into the new one. This isn’t only for sins, but events, ideas, obsessions, and anything that may weigh upon you. Symbolically, throw these into the water. If possible, find or bring a stick to write into the sand at the edge of the surf, those things you want to leave in the year past, and watch the waves take them away, literally and figuratively.

Contemplate the things you want to leave behind in the past year and what to carry with you into the new one. This isn’t only for sins, but events, ideas, obsessions, and anything that may weigh upon you. Symbolically, throw these into the water. If possible, find or bring a stick to write into the sand at the edge of the surf, those things you want to leave in the year past, and watch the waves take them away, literally and figuratively.