Happy New Year!

leo

7/23 - 8/22

Today January 2, 2014 

daily overview

This is not a time for direct action -- you need to listen carefully and think things through before you can have a hope of making a difference. Take all the time you need -- it really matters!

 

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!

Late last night I began to journal about

those things some call 'NEW YEARS RESOLUTIONS"

you know, those things we promise ourselves we will

do in the year but after a few weeks we most often just forget about.

I am famous for that. Still, I journal them all down with my first being,

"TO FIND THE RELATIONSHIP WITH MY GOD I ONCE HAD"

Over the last few years, I have been slack with that.

Yes, I still say my prayers, I still speak of the miracle of my

life when asked but the close relationship I had with Him

has been lost over the last few years.

In the scrapbook world, we have this thing called

ONE LITTLE WORD

The idea is to pick only one word in all of the 

English language to focus on for the entire year.

I read many of those I know and was ready to 

set my own word. One word is much easier to 

carry through the year than a whole list of resolutions, right?

Then I think of my dear new friend, Becky and

her gratitude tree and the tree I have in place for the

same reason and I pick my word.

Yes, my word is gratitude.

I have so much to be grateful  for and yet,

as all us human beings do, we focus on the negative

too often. Each day I will create something for this

dear tree that is housed in my spare bedroom upstairs.

Each day I will find something to be grateful for.

At the end of the year, this little tree should have

at least 365 items on it. I challenge you.

Pick a word, it is so much easier than a whole

list of things. Let me know what word you choose.

Let it be your way of working on yourself

to become a better you.

Have to add here, please pray for my sister C,

and her Rousse family as her brother in law is

not well and may not pull through this illness.

MY brother in law, TEd throughout my MOm's 

illness on the many times we had to call the family

to the hospital at all hours of the night,

he would pick up all the sisters and drive them

to the hospital. He stayed and patiently waited

for his next direction never complaining.

Even through all of this, his own dad was sick

and eventually died as well as his brother and mother

having been sick through it all.

Not once did he complain or speak of his own 

pain for his family. Merely sat quietly and 

was there for us all.

No way to thank a man who does this for 

his in-law family.

Prayers to them all.