HAPPY NEW YEARS DAY! Today is my favorite holiday. I love New Years Day because it is an ultimate clean slate – an entire new year. For years I have kept a journal and on this day I would begin an entry in a brand new journal and write to God, giving Him all of my hopes, desires, anticipations, expectations, worries and anxieties about the new year to come purging it all and ultimately ending with having given it to Him and accepting the New Year as His will be done.
When I look forward on this day into the unknown New Year there is a small stirring of excitement and giddiness that is in the pit of my stomach. What will I be called to do? Who will I meet? Where will I be led to go? Who will pass that I love? What sorrow will I know this year? What blessings will I receive that I don’t even know to anticipate? How will I grow? Who will I become that makes me stronger, wiser, and kinder than the person I am in this very moment? There is so much possibility that I just don’t know if I can stand it! 🙂
The past isn’t forgotten. I also take time to go back and read the very first day of the journal for the last year and then I reflect peacefully on how much of what “I” wanted was given and where it was that He brought me to in the year. I think about the answers to the questions above for the past year and thank God for the person I am today and ask for forgiveness where I might have failed along the way. I don’t ponder here too long.
Today is a new day… a NEW YEAR… a clean slate. 🙂
So as I head into 2012 I want to make more of an effort to truly SHOW UP in 2012. I will write as often as I am able. I want to take each day and ask Him ‘What can I do for YOU today?’ How can I be YOUR hands, YOUR love, YOUR hug, and YOUR ear? Just Show Up. I want to pay attention and SEE how HE shows up through others for me.
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In 2012 I also plan to add more pictures to the blogs. I have failed miserably in this area! But you’ve asked for them so I shall oblige. 😉
Just Show Up – not too much to ask. 🙂
Blessings
Shannon
