If 2024 was good, then we think with anticipation: “I wonder what this year will hold.” If 2025 was bad, then we think: “Ahhh, I am glad for a fresh start; this year will be different.”
We don’t find a hyperspiritual, out-of-touch vision of faith in the Psalms; instead, what we are presented with in the Psalms has blood and sweat and tears.