Crossing Over to 2012

This year is about to be called “last year”, and a new year is fast approaching. I wanted to wish you a happy, vibrant, and prosperous New Year. May we take this upcoming year by force as we find and possibly create new and exciting opportunities to redeem ourselves, or make ourselves better.

This time of the year has a tendency to make us reflect, and be excited about renewing and reinventing ourselves and our spirits. I cheer on those who advocate exercise and healthy diets. But why stop there, I say add to that. Let’s get our minds, spirits, and emotions healthy as well. A Total body health and fitness for me as we cross over to 2012.

Happy New Year!

Hello All. I'm Still Around

Hello All.  I'm still around.  Been a while since i last blogged, but the thoughts have never quit roaring through my mind like a thunderstorm on a hot muggy night.  Glad to report that I'm still growing.  Still loving.  Still learning.  Still laughing.  Every chance i get.  I hope that you are doing the same.  Even though the saying goes "life is short, so enjoy it", Life, is the longest thing that we'll ever have.  So yes, enjoy it, every moment of it.  Slide into what's next like a baseball player sliding into home plate.

SAFE! yells the umpire.

Reflection

Today I’m reflecting on life. As I grow in age it has always been my desire to grow in wisdom and knowledge as well.  I enjoy looking back, and being able to reflect on the things of the past.  It is important to me that I have an awareness of where I am now, a comprehension of where I want to be, and a realization of where I should be.

In reflecting I want to be able to look in the mirror at the person staring back, and really know who she is, and how she became to be.  My walk is and has been very guided, by a God that is ever present.  Have I always listened and followed? No. That’s why self reflecting is so important to me; because now when I take a glimpse in the mirror, I see a woman that was once a princes, with many bumps and bruises from being disobedient, but when I look closer, I see a beautiful backdrop, in the image of a woman that is now a queen that has way more sub-dermal beauty marks than bumps and bruises; because I am a Child of God.

Marvel in Time.

“Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away, Now it look as though they're here to stay
Oh, I believe in yesterday

Suddenly, I'm not half the man I used to be, There's a shadow hanging over me
oh, yesterday came suddenly

Yesterday, love was such an easy game to play, Now I need a place to hide away
oh, I believe in yesterday” - originally recorded by The Beatles for their 1965 album Help!

Sometimes I wish for Yesterday; but what I yearn for the most is a silhouette of a brighter tomorrow, with a call of yesterday.  Sometimes I don’t want to forget yesterday. Sometimes I need to forget yesterday.  Sometimes I have to forget yesterday, to bring on my tomorrow.

Time

“Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of our lives” –NBC Television Network

 Individually, yet rapidly, days of our lives fly by, and sometimes without us noticing how fast time is really passing by.  It’s March of 2011 already! It seems as if it was just Christmas; yet summer is the season that’s peeking around the corner at us.

Time waits for no one.  It certainly is not waiting for me.  I woke up a few weeks ago, and I was 45.Where did the time go? It eluded me and my plans; for it had a plan of its own.

So in an effort to beat time's ass in this race that time started, I’m going to stand still more, watch more, listen more, exercise more,  I’m  managing my own time better, I’m saying I love you more, I’m making wiser decisions, and I’m enjoying life more.  These are just a few things of mine that I’m taking away from time.

Acts of Kindness

Today, see if you can stretch your heart and expand your love so that it touches not only those to whom you can give it easily, but also those who need it so much- Daphine Rose Kingma

I have many, many matters of the heart when I look at my family and my love ones.  But lately my own personal matters of the heart have spread far beyond the ones to whom my love is easily bestowed.

When I take a look in the local and national newspapers, I see matters of my heart increasing.  World News Tonight is guaranteed to be a tearjerker, and my heart just wants to expand.  There are so many people in need of love, or some form of love. Maybe a smile, a hug, a kind note or words of encouragement is all it takes to lift the spirits of another. What I’m really enthralled by is how every one of these acts of kindness carries with it a good old fashion dose of “what goes around comes around”; how all of these things return to the original sender after completing some sort of cycle. Need love? Give love.  Need a hug? Give a hug. Need encouragement? Be encouraging. Get the picture?

 Today I will smile and spread cheer. I will be compassionate. I will love freely and openly, and I will love much.

 Today I prepare to sow my seeds; my seedlings are called Acts of Kindness.  I expect a bountiful harvest.

Order in My Life

(ôr'dər)  Law. A direction or command delivered by a court or other adjudicative body and entered into the record but not necessarily included in the final judgment or verdict.

I am at my best when order is present within and around me. I understand why order is important to my success. It is easy for me to become bewildered, dumb-founded, and disillusioned when my life is out of order.  This scene would be similar to an uprising in an uncompromising, unruly territory.

Giving in to placing order in my life is like escaping into a world of peace, love, and tranquility. FINAL JUDGMENT is in favor of the plaintiff, me. Just the ruling I need.