Looking at life with a new perspective...

     

Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.

G.K. Chesterton

       

         It seems as a New Year approaches a refreshing also comes with it. The holidays are behind us and cold temperatures have begun, to usher in a feeling of newness and even hope. A clean slate awaits us, especially if we look back and feel a bit disappointed from the previous twelve months.

     We are all given an opportunity to set new goals and even change things we did last year that we weren't satisfied with. Maybe you need to get back to the gym, or spend more time with your family. Did you pick up a bad habit last year that you want to eliminate from your life? What about that new business you have been wanting to start? Remember how much better you felt when you were meditating everyday? Looking at life with an new perspective always gives us a sense of excitement and expectation. Anything is possible for those who believe!

     So lets determine this year to be the best we can be...physically, spiritually and mentally! Amen and so be it!

     Happy 2013!

       

      

I'm ready for health, healing and life...

  “I suppose that since most of our hurts come through relationships so will our healing, and I know that grace rarely makes sense for those looking in from the outside.” 

Wm.Paul Young

   The holidays again come as an unexpected intruder. Why is it every year we pledge...this year will be different! Yet it comes as the year before, with dread and heavy sighs. Maybe it's just me?! I only continue to even put up a tree for the sake of my grand kids. If not for them and my sons I would probably be like the Kranks and just try to ignore it all. (I was really just hoping the Mayans were right!)

     I pray the coming days and weeks will be nothing like the previous year. It's been one I don't want to ever redo. Sickness, pain and death took its toll, and I'm ready for health, healing and life to be front and center this next year.
     I also pray, building up relationships will be one of your goals this coming year. We seem to  operate our lives in cycles. Tending, pulling back, isolating, tending..... We take time to tend to our important relationships, then we have drama happen so we pull back, then there are times we just want to isolate. The cycles can be caused by several things but they seem to happen to us all.
     Again it goes back to staying aware and being able to recognize which cycle we are spending more time in. We really want to be tending more than we are pulling back and isolating. Why? Because we need each other! I pray Gods greatest and best for you in 2013! Amen and so be it!