It’s the fifth day of the New Year already! I’ll admit that I’m a total sucker for resolutions. I just love the whole idea of clean slate…a beautiful blank calendar not yet filled with bad judgment or less than stellar moments. As Anne Shirley would say “every day is brand new…with no mistakes in it.”
American Industry Author Bill Vaughn once said, “An optimist stays up until midnight to see the New Year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.” I’ll be the first to admit that I’ve most definitely been both the pessimist and the optimist. Some years it was all I could to put the year behind me and other times, I could hardly wait for the next year’s arrival. I think that this year, I was more nostalgic than anything else. We had such a wonderful and exciting year that it was kind of hard to say goodbye to 2008. Between our first house, our trip of a lifetime to Australia, the adventures of having our house invaded by Tugger and a million little things in between…2008 was good to us. I welcomed some amazing new relationships into my life, was forced to let go of others (sometimes more than once) and was blessed enough to add yet another year to many of the relationships that continue to build. I laughed, I cried, I pleaded and I raised my hands to the heavens time and time again.
It was definitely one of my better years.
This New Year’s Eve though…I got to celebrate the best of both worlds; giving a fond farewell to 2008 with eager anticipation for 2009. Already, I feel like it’s going to be a year of great change and growth. I guess I’m at a time in my life when I’m far less afraid of the unknown and have decided that even in times that don’t turn out exactly the way you planned… “This too…is God”.
I don’t know what 2009 has planned for us but it sounds like a good number to me! Either way, I think that life is what happens when you’re turning the calendar pages!!!
American Industry Author Bill Vaughn once said, “An optimist stays up until midnight to see the New Year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.” I’ll be the first to admit that I’ve most definitely been both the pessimist and the optimist. Some years it was all I could to put the year behind me and other times, I could hardly wait for the next year’s arrival. I think that this year, I was more nostalgic than anything else. We had such a wonderful and exciting year that it was kind of hard to say goodbye to 2008. Between our first house, our trip of a lifetime to Australia, the adventures of having our house invaded by Tugger and a million little things in between…2008 was good to us. I welcomed some amazing new relationships into my life, was forced to let go of others (sometimes more than once) and was blessed enough to add yet another year to many of the relationships that continue to build. I laughed, I cried, I pleaded and I raised my hands to the heavens time and time again.
It was definitely one of my better years.
This New Year’s Eve though…I got to celebrate the best of both worlds; giving a fond farewell to 2008 with eager anticipation for 2009. Already, I feel like it’s going to be a year of great change and growth. I guess I’m at a time in my life when I’m far less afraid of the unknown and have decided that even in times that don’t turn out exactly the way you planned… “This too…is God”.
I don’t know what 2009 has planned for us but it sounds like a good number to me! Either way, I think that life is what happens when you’re turning the calendar pages!!!
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