In nine short hours (Central Standard Time) it will be 2008 no more...where on Earth did this year of my life go? Wherever it went, according to my journal entries, it had fun getting there! Now, it's time to forgive and forget. We must forgive ourselves for the bad decisions we made all year and forget what they were so we can do it all over again next year!
Honestly, celebrating the New Year is like wiping the slate clean...I mean, face it, it is another chance to make your dreams come true. Like God's Grace is bestowed anew upon baptism, we now have the opportunity to do things better than we have in the past and to do things right, from now on into the future! We each have a choice: live or die. It really is that simple. Anyone who tells you different has got an agenda. Think about it a minute.
We all have choices, every single day. There are two constants in our lives that we all have in common. Choices and Change. Each choice brings change. Each change brings growth. Each growth brings knowledge. For everything learned there is a sacrifice. Sacrifice brings death. And the pattern repeats itself.
In speech class, while in my Court Reporting course, our teacher taught us this phrase: "For every birth, something must die." I can't remember if it's from Shakespeare or not, I'm inclined to say that it is. Did we read Leviticus? I don't remember...and that's a shame! In any case, she was right. In fact, a lot of the old adages of the past come to mind and are also just as true today as they were yesterday. "When one door closes, another door opens, If you love something let it go..., When you fall down, dust yourself off," etc. With the exception of this old phrase: "Opportunity knocks." No, it doesn't. Opportunity takes on many forms of communicating itself to us. Opportunity can whisper in your ear, it can pound inside your chest, and it can kick the door full off its hinges in some cases. Those are the forms I'm familiar with, anyway.
So, what will it be for you? Will you welcome or stifle your opportunities in the year to come? Will you continue to make excuses or finish that "thing" you've been working on forever? What will it take to make you settle down and see it through this year? If you need help, I hope you'll give me the opportunity to help you in any way that I can.
Good luck, Blessings abound, and May your cup runneth over throughout the New Year!
God Bless, Elisa
p.s. I have COMPLETED the entire first draft of my first novel it took me 13 months to write! I'm so happy, I don't know what to do with myself. I've been working so hard for so long...now that I'm done...I don't know what to do now. I'm just so excited and ready to share it with the world!! I had to record it Somewhere for public display! thanks for reading, emg
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