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Let us not forget

by | Jan 9, 2012 | Uncategorized

Moving into my word for the year this picture is a symbol for me.
We cannot do life alone.
We cannot isolate ourselves.
We cannot think we are an island not needing anyones help or encouragement.
Because we have twin grand daughters this picture is meaningful for me.
I saw them as tiny little individuals laying next to each other needing each other for lifes’ hope
life’s richness and life’s heartbeat.
God created us to need others.
Let us not forget that.
Is there someone you need to call today
or write a note to or go visit?

Word of the year

by | Jan 5, 2012 | Uncategorized

There is a challenge within the blog community to pick one word at the start of every year.
That word would become the message truth or symbol of the months to follow.
Two years ago the word chosen was grief.
My husband’s mother was dying of cancer and we had many roads to travel within that diagnosis.
Deep sadness followed both of us throughout the months of days and nights and within that process the Lord taught us what it would feel like to let someone go.
Tears are not wrong or bad (against all that I was ever taught as a child) they can be messengers to teach us more about ourselves.
Through the process of grief we learned that we had no control over mom’s disease and her illness was harder on my husband than myself for he would take her to doctor appointments or sit with her as she dealt with her limitations.
I remained the observer.
It was intensely hard to watch and write about the process but I knew it was necessary.
The grief word fulfilled itself that year even after mom passed away. 
We said our good byes but the heart doesn’t heal that fast
deep grief takes time.
We will miss her always.
Then last year after spending time in prayer and listening
I was given rest as our word.
Again it fulfilled itself starting with my husbands shoulder surgery, two trips to the ER, cancer removal, shingles, infections, mumps, allergic bronchitis (didn’t need antibiotics) and finally a liver biopsy.
All these required rest and being patient. 
The process to seek a word is serious for it usually does come true.
So through prayer I am centering in on several words for this new year.

Each one of them have deep meaning for me.
I am not ready to reveal mine but if you had a chance what would your word for the year be?

The first day of 2012

by | Jan 2, 2012 | Uncategorized

Today
I pray for you a wonderful new beginning.
A new cause to believe in
A new hope to grasp onto and
A new love in your heart. 
None of  us knows what this new year will bring
but what we do know is the strength we have inside of each us to make it through whatever it may be. 
Today I hope for you peace contentment and inner joy.
God bless you as you go into a new year of discovery.
We welcome the year of 2012.

What matters the most

by | Jan 1, 2012 | Uncategorized

The ending of an old year means
many changes are ahead for all of us
when the calendar flips over to January
we look at empty squares with nothing written on them and
we realize we have an opportunity to make new choices.
Tomorrow could be a new beginning.
We can learn to make choices that matter for eternity.
We can choose to move healthy relationships into deeper ones and
we can choose to leave behind those who are not good for us.
What matters the most
can become the new message we give to ourselves
in this new year.
I believe God gives each of us an opportunity to pause and
breathe deep and do some internal thinking.
Our Pastor once said, “When you pause you don’t miss the obvious.”
Tomorrow begins a new year.
Tomorrow we can choose to not want to miss the obvious.
Two thousand and eleven will be gone forever never to be seen again.
The choices we make for this new year can be good and positive ones.
We can learn to become grateful for all things.
Throughout this year I have attempted to write about cultivating an attitude of gratitude.
We can learn to say thank-you in our every day conversations.
We can learn to say I love you or I appreciate you.
We can learn that joy is not the same as being happy.
Happy people are not always joyful people in their spirit.
Great joy is about fulfillment deep within us
no matter what our circumstance is.
Things can be really hard but we can still consider it all joy.
For we know all things are for a purpose and all things happen to us
as a lesson for us to learn from.
They are life altering moments and what matters the most
is each of us have a choice.
Tomorrow a new year will begin.

Tonight we will clink our glasses together and say to each other
“Happy New Year”.
Some of us might be glad the old year is gone and looking forward to a new one to begin.
Some of us don’t know what the new year will bring but if we pause and breathe and
learn to become our own hero in whatever process we are in
we save ourselves.
what matters the most is our choice to say
“I will begin again tomorrow.”