My life is a journey...I never know who or what I will meet just around the next bend that will give my life experience!

Sunday, January 4, 2015

Seventy-Five New Chapters In My Life...


I know I'm a couple of days late writing about my feelings and hopes for the New Year, 2015, but I started the year off with a bang...a whopping case of the flu.  I don't recommend it to anyone.  Today was the first day that I have felt almost as good as new...,not quite, but almost.

I sense many changes coming our way in the new year.  I cannot put my finger on just what they might be, but there is a foreboding in the air deep inside of me and I have spent a good part of this day in tears.  Letting go does that to me.  Whether it is letting go of a child who is moving on in their life or letting go of a year that, for the most part, has been good to me...it is all the same.  I like "sameness."  I like reaching a goal and then staying there.

But, because life is ever changing and we grow with the changes, move on I must; and I must put my trust in the Lord and know that His plans for me and my life are the best plans.  I cannot be so much ingrained in the world that I spend my life "leaning (upon my) own understanding" and so little time in "trust(ing) in the Lord."  And so, having said all of that, I am laying down a foundation for my goals for the New Year.

Let me smile more, judge less; show gratitude more, and do less grumbling; spend more time with my family, and less time with my obsessions; and let me find joy wherever it can be found and let the old hurts that destroy be swept away.

I have turned over seventy-five December calendar pages to reveal a new January.  I have seen many winters, many springs, many summers and many falls...and I pray that I have many more Decembers left for me to sneak a peek into the coming January and see the hopes for the future.

God bless us one and all as we move forward into a new year.

2 comments:

Kim Messick said...

Always love your writing!
Good goals to set for 2015! May it be all you hoped for.
Love you!

Unknown said...

So wondetful. I too love your writing.