It is a new year! Where did the old one fly to? What happened that it went by so fast?
Today, claim the gift of reflection. Look back over the past twelve months and take ownership of all the blessings and insights that you have received.
One mother complained to her friend about the noise her teen age kids make. She finds herself irritated at their volume in the house.
Her older friend, who had lost her nineteen year old in a truck accident some years previously, cautiously added to the conversation. “I just wish I could hear the music blaring out of the basement!”
A week ago, it was bitterly cold on the prairies. Take a moment to appreciate that the electricity worked so well. The furnace ran smoothly, the computer was charged up and every light in the house worked. What a daily blessing when you place it beside the disaster life would be if the electricity failed for several days during this cold snap.
Your health is very good. The last time you visited your doctor you were told, “Whatever you are doing, keep doing it!” How wonderful to have limbs that function, a memory that woks and eyes and ears to perceive the world. It all works! Can you be any luckier?
Soon it will be tax season. How wonderful that you are self-sufficient and can pay taxes to support the common good of the country. When some people complain I always tell them that it is wonderful that I can pay my taxes so that your granddaughters can go to school. Even though we all grumble, how great it is to be able to take responsibility for the common good of our country.
Take each friend, who supports you, puts up with your many weaknesses and quirks, but still loves you. Every friend is true wealth.
Take each member of your family; your spouse, each of your children and their spouses, each one of your grandchildren and savour the blessing that they are to your life. How impoverished your life would be without them?
If you practice a religious faith, take the great concern that the Father-God has for your life. Get in touch with the concern and mission that he has given you. Your life has deep meaning and purpose. You are given the mission to extend and make real the very love and compassion of God in your daily surroundings.
We need to spend time savouring each blessing, taking ownership of each moment of goodness in the past twelve months. Time may have slipped by very quickly, but the blessings are in abundance.
Enjoy the reflection. Burst into song in gratitude.
Can you think of a better way to enter into the New Year, 2023?
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