It's the closing of chapters..
A moment last all of a second, but the memory lives on forever.
Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.
The end of the year always brings people to reflect on the past years experiences... good and bad... a sigh of relief that a new year and the chance for a new beginning is upon us and hope that the new year will bring better experiences, happier days, more prosperous times. Better health for those that suffered in the last year.
Better jobs or just to have a job for those unemployed. It's actually amazing to me that there is so much pressure put on January 1. People expect good changes to happen overnight. They act as if they will go to sleep after ringing in the new year and their lives will be suddenly different. The month of January is typically the month of New Years Resolutions attempt to happen. And when people realize that change in their lives is NOT overnight, that it's going to take WORK to make positive changes in their lives on a DAILY basis... diets, working out, giving up smoking, or drinking... they all take time. They all require a daily attempt to do it right. And once you take the first step and get one day down, then you have to wake up the next day as if it were "New Years Day" all over again and get it right that day too. And wake up the next day with the same thought... it's only after you have made the change on a daily basis over a period of time that you will see any real change in your life. Because change is a process...
Sometimes change takes days, months but sometimes change takes years... the waiting and the conscious effort that you must put into the changes eventually pays off to achieve the original goal that drove you to want the change to begin with. When you reach the point of being at the peak of the mountain that you have just been climbing... that's the time for celebration! The point of being able to say that all that hard work paid off and you have successfully changed your life!
If God sends us on strong paths, we are provided strong shoes.” Corrie TenBoom
I've been on the journey to change my life with God's prodding for he has plans for my life for a few years now. I've been at a crossroads of wondering what direction I'm supposed to take. It's interesting to me that where I am in my life right now and how it meets up so perfectly with the end of the year and the end of a decade... a totally fresh year and decade to be written! My prayer is God's will for my life be made the desire of my heart.
Only Hope lyrics by Switchfoot
There's a song that's inside of my soul
It's the one that I've tried to write over and over again
I'm awake in the infinite cold
But You sing to me over and over again
So I lay my head back down
And I lift my hands
and pray to be only Yours
I pray to be only Yours
I know now you're my only hope
Sing to me the song of the stars
Of Your galaxy dancing and laughing
and laughing again
When it feels like my dreams are so far
Sing to me of the plans that You have for me over again
And I lay my head back down
And I lift my hands and pray
To be only yours
I pray to be only yours
I know now you're my only hope
I give You my apathy
I'm giving You all of me
I want Your symphony
Singing in all that I am
At the top of my lungs I'm giving it back
There's a song that's inside of my soul
It's the one that I've tried to write over and over again
I'm awake in the infinite cold
But You sing to me over and over again
So I lay my head back down
And I lift my hands
and pray to be only Yours
I pray to be only Yours
I know now you're my only hope
Sing to me the song of the stars
Of Your galaxy dancing and laughing
and laughing again
When it feels like my dreams are so far
Sing to me of the plans that You have for me over again
And I lay my head back down
And I lift my hands and pray
To be only yours
I pray to be only yours
I know now you're my only hope
I give You my apathy
I'm giving You all of me
I want Your symphony
Singing in all that I am
At the top of my lungs I'm giving it back
The beginning of the new year/ new decade is also the beginning of my journey that God is putting me on... how VERY exciting!! I truly can not wait to see what unfolds in my life in the coming years! I'm leaving my past life behind me... I've had some wonderful happy days that I will cherish forever and I have had some horribly sad devastating days that I would have preferred to have never had to live through!
But what doesn't kill you, makes you stronger... my heart and soul are so much stronger now... I'm also able to give so many more people compassion for their dark days because I personally have gone through my own.
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. -Lao Tzu
I've got my hiking shoes on... I'm ready to start my new walk!... Life is an adventure and I'm blessed to have a God that loves me so much that he has a wonderful plan for my life!
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