Leaving 2010 - Getting Busy With 2011

As we end this year and look back over the experiences of the year , we've learned some lessons, taught some lessons, lived some lessons and continue to have unfinished lessons we have to learn. We've lost people in our experience, we were given other people in our lives, we may have thought that our life should not change without first seeking our counsel - but life doesn't do that. We have learned to accept life as it is or in the alternative, we have deceived ourselves and chose to view the world the way we want it to be. There is a gentle balance between the two. What is imperative for our belief system, our survival and our peace of mind is our ability to hope in spite of hope. To believe for our very best in the face of all the signs that scream we are doomed. This has to become our conviction that no matter what life shows up with, through tears, through prayers, through doctor's appointments, court dates, unemployment lines and all the other boogie men that arise, we must know that our lives are in the capable hand of God. And though we walk through the shadows of the valley of death, we will fear no evil for God is with us. So we pick up our things and we journey into 2011, expecting the best, praying for the best and living the best life ever because we made it. Through whatever last year brought us through, we made it! Applaud yourself but not too long because you don't have long to revile in the events of yesterday, you have got too much to do today!