Looking at What We Do Have

I have been thinking a lot about focusing on the blessings, rather than thinking or worrying about what I do not have. So, I decided to just start being thankful and calling out that which I do have. I was just looking around and speaking and then it got to be that I was calling out things which could not be seen, necessarily.

In my list were those things that were so small, so irrelevant to most people yet large to me. I have the ability to do so many things. I can breathe, walk, blink, move,think, hum a tune in my head, see with both eyes, remember things from my childhood that bring me happiness at the thought of them, care about others, do something to help someone else, teach others so they can increase their knowledge and grow, offer my assistance to others, laugh and make my heart happy and so on and so on. I was absolutely amazed when I started thinking of all the things I could think of. Sometimes the thoughts were coming to me so quickly that it was scary yet fun.

So, try it. Think of what you do have. Do not allow your mind to list anything other than what you do have. See what you come up with.

I found that I had so many things that whatever was missing was not missed. Somehow I just know things are going to work out. What a great feeling!!!

New Year, New Opportunities

Happy New Year! What a tremendous blessing to have been privileged to enter 2009. I am so grateful to have made it to another year. I see opportunities. I see dreams coming true. I see improvements in my personal and professional life. I see good.

The old cliches of putting the past year behind us and starting over don't seem to ring with me. The reason is that there are, in fact, some things that do follow us into the new year. However, it is my prayer and hope that we will be better equipped to deal with them and will have a better handle over those things.

My relationship with God and my family are of the utmost importance to me. A strained relationship is beginning to be healed and I'm grateful for that. So, I consider this year as beginning out on a high note.

I want to make this year count in my life. I want it to be positively significant. I hope yours will be also. Have a great year!!