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Happy New Year

Like everyone I have my list of things I want to accomplish and things I want to change about myself this new year.  There’s nothing more refreshing than a new start.. a clean slate.. another chance to do things “right”.  But despite that ambitious list of mine, the only thing I really want to accomplish this year is a change in perspective. 

In reflecting on the year and how much the latter half of it just REALLY SUCKED (for lack of a better description), I know that I could’ve handled it all so much better.  Although I do cut myself some slack considering every aspect of my life: family, school, work, etc. went through or is currently going through some major obstacle… I went through it all the wrong way.  I’ve been going through things as if the quality of my life is determined by the amount of happy and sad moments that I go through, when in reality, life will always have ups and downs, some really high and some really really low and no new year is going to change that.

But whats important is how I choose to see each joy and each struggle. Perspective is everything.  I have to start choosing to see that everything, big and small, happy or sad, is given to us for a reason… to better mold us for the better if we let it.  But more importantly I have to remember to never leave God out of the equation.  Life is so grim and pointless without Him. It’s time I stopped seeing things through my selfish eyes and took things from His divine perspective.

So here’s to a new year.  In whatever I go through this year, may I understand that nothing is permanent, and the quality of my life is not only dependent on how I choose to live and perceive each day, but its also absolutely dependent on the quality of my relationship with the Great God who gave it to me.

Lord give me strength.. Mama please pray for me.. May this year be for You. amen.

  1. rolandbigornia said: Cheers to the new year! Are you rheady? *elbow nudge heh.. heh.. heh..
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