New beginnings

HAPPY NEW YEAR, EVERYONE!

Have you given thanks to your Higher Power today?

I thank God:
- for being able to live long enough to see 2014
- for showing me how spiritually strong I am
- for continuing to shore me up when I am weak
- for keeping this old body in good health
- for sending many anglels in disguise to guide me
- for not abandoning me

2013 is behind us and everything that happened to us that hurt should be left there. We should take only the good and positive into 2014. Sometimes it is hard to let go of negative events, but we have to if we expect to move on with our lives. In many instances, those who have hurt us, in however they did it, are feeling NOTHING, but we still carry in us what they did, so guess who is "messed up?" It sure isn't them. They have done their damage and moved on, not caring one wit about the carnage they left behind them. We have to let go of their foolishness and not carry into our new year. It may not be easy, but it should be done.

Do you have any sandpaper people in your life who are moving with you into 2014? I still have some. The question is how we are going to handle them so that their persistent negative way of doing things doesn't make us be what they should not be. Saying that we are going to drop them may not be that easy, so it is time to consider positive defense mechanisms...and, for me, staying in constant prayer.

This is a moment of new beginnings and the possibility of beautiful pipe dreams coming true. New doors of growth will open and new opportunities to actuate your dreams will come to life. Your positive attitude will bring so much into your universe. We must remember to be grateful. No matter what happens, we must be grateful for every little blessing.

"If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until it gets so ugly you can hardly bear to look at it. A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely". ~Roald Dahl