Happy New Year to you my friend. Now that all the Hollidays are over it is a bit of a let down. All of our snow was gone for a few days and now this morning we woke up to another 2"! It was such a surprise cause it was in the high 40's yesterday and when I went to bed it was mild and raining! I hope it is gone by Sun. I don't want to miss church.
I want to wish you and yours a wonderful new year and may the Lord bless you with many blessing, great and small.
Today is the day when we pay tribute to the passage of time. Our planet has made one more trip around the solar system, and we call that a year.
Our perception of time is useful, because it helps us live our lives. Thousands of years ago, with technology that would be considered quite crude by today's standards, people were able to accurately measure and anticipate the various seasons of the year. The concept of time has been important for a long time.
Like any useful tool, however, time can be abused and misused. Excuses like "I'm too old to do that" or "I'll have plenty of time for that later" are a misuse of the concept of time. The first one assumes that there is never enough time. The second one assumes that there is always enough time. They are both wrong. Time is what you make of it. It does not make you or define you or rescue you from mediocrity. Whether you say "there's never enough time" or "there's always more time" what you are really saying is that you're not willing to make the effort to use time wisely.
Consider for a moment the possibility that time does not exist. That it is just a convenient concept, a theory, that has no basis in reality. What if everything you were, everything you are, and everything you are going to be, existed all at once? When you think about it, have you ever really experienced the past or the future? Sure, you have memories of the past, but have you ever been there? You have hopes and fears and anticipation for the future, but have you ever been there? The fact is, the only place you exist is now. What if there were no future and no past? What if you had to be everything you could be right now? How would that change you?
Time is a tool that humans have invented to help make sense of the universe. It is an extremely useful tool that helps us plan and organize and understand our lives. But time is separate from our existance, just as the hammer is separate from the carpenter. Though the hammer is one of the carpenter's most useful tools, though it helps him to fashion his world and accomplish great things, the hammer does not define the carpenter. Does the carpenter stop doing his work just because he has used his hammer for too long? No, of course not. Does the carpenter neglect to do his work because he has a new, shiny hammer that will "always be there"? No.
We must learn to use time for what it is without letting it hold us back. You don't have a lack of time. You don't have plenty of time. You have only the use of time. It's up to you to use it wisely.
Have a GOOD DAY,,, Lots of LOVE, HUGS, and Prayers,,, Creator Blessings,,,, Jesse Gray Wolf
You've come through a lot to get to this New Year's Day in the year 2009. And now is your opportunity to put all that experience to use in making this new year the best one ever.
Today, as the new year begins, you have the opportunity to distance yourself, to detach yourself from the disappointments and limitations of the past. Those disappointments are now last year's disappointments. All those limitations are now last year's limitations. Today you are already moving on past them because you're living in a brand new year.
You have what it takes to fill each day of this new year with positive, focused thoughts and actions which will move you solidly toward the achievement of the best you can imagine for yourself and your world. Just think of all the great things you can do! Imagine what an enormous positive difference you can make in your own life and in the lives of those around you.
And you have a brand new year in which to do it. So decide right now to make it great. Stand up right now and take the first step forward, the first step this year in the direction of your most treasured dreams. Then keep right on going, moving ahead for a whole year's worth of positive, productive, effective and joyful living.
Happy New Year! It's yours right now so make it great.
Little & I will celebrate 32nd Anniversary tomorrow
Have a GOOD DAY,,, Lots of LOVE, HUGS, and Prayers,,, Creator Blessings,,,, Jesse Gray Wolf
