Welcoming the New Year
I spent New Year's eve doing chores - had the cars washed and their gas tanks filled, cleaned the front and back yards, removed weeds from the plants, pruned the roses, did the laundry, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera..
As I was weeding and pruning, I thought of the how that seem to parallel what is happening in my life - the process of getting ready to start over. Sure, I had scratches from the roses' thorns, but many times, that's what it takes to make things better and beautiful - as you remove the dead weight to nurture that which needs to live.
There are a lot of weeds and dead branches in our lives - the things we need to get rid of as we move forward. These could be our clinging on to the past that prevents us from embracing the future. But, past is past, and the best thing we could do with them is learn from them - and move on.
Things happen in our lives when we least expect them. How we react to them could make us or break us. The only thing we could control is our reaction. We have been given the freedom of choice on how to make our everyday. We could choose to mope around, we could choose to get up and go. We could choose to hide or we could choose to face changes with a fresh perspective - and embrace them.
We make choices everyday. Some choices are easy - (but many of us can't make up our minds what to have for lunch!) Some choices require us to think inwardly and assess the pros and the cons. Some choices hurt us or hurt others, but in the end, our choices are OUR choices. We have to own up to them, and if we make the wrong ones, it will be our choice to correct them.
It is about that freedom given to us to make a call in most aspects of our lives. Like how Adam had a choice to bite or not to bite the forbidden fruit; or how Eve had the choice to listen or to ignore the serpent and not pick the fruit in the first place. But after the wrong choices are done and when we blame each other for the choices we made, we enter into a different dimension which is more confusing and damaging.
In my life, I have my share of wrong choices. But admitting them to be wrong has led me to many right choices. In the end, it had always been about MY choices and my owning up to them.
I chose to embrace the changes happening in my life. I chose to ignore the negative feelings and thoughts. I chose to turn the other cheek. I chose to move on, to learn and to grow.
This is a New Year. I chose to make it a good one.
Happy New Year!
As I was weeding and pruning, I thought of the how that seem to parallel what is happening in my life - the process of getting ready to start over. Sure, I had scratches from the roses' thorns, but many times, that's what it takes to make things better and beautiful - as you remove the dead weight to nurture that which needs to live.
There are a lot of weeds and dead branches in our lives - the things we need to get rid of as we move forward. These could be our clinging on to the past that prevents us from embracing the future. But, past is past, and the best thing we could do with them is learn from them - and move on.
Things happen in our lives when we least expect them. How we react to them could make us or break us. The only thing we could control is our reaction. We have been given the freedom of choice on how to make our everyday. We could choose to mope around, we could choose to get up and go. We could choose to hide or we could choose to face changes with a fresh perspective - and embrace them.
We make choices everyday. Some choices are easy - (but many of us can't make up our minds what to have for lunch!) Some choices require us to think inwardly and assess the pros and the cons. Some choices hurt us or hurt others, but in the end, our choices are OUR choices. We have to own up to them, and if we make the wrong ones, it will be our choice to correct them.
It is about that freedom given to us to make a call in most aspects of our lives. Like how Adam had a choice to bite or not to bite the forbidden fruit; or how Eve had the choice to listen or to ignore the serpent and not pick the fruit in the first place. But after the wrong choices are done and when we blame each other for the choices we made, we enter into a different dimension which is more confusing and damaging.
In my life, I have my share of wrong choices. But admitting them to be wrong has led me to many right choices. In the end, it had always been about MY choices and my owning up to them.
I chose to embrace the changes happening in my life. I chose to ignore the negative feelings and thoughts. I chose to turn the other cheek. I chose to move on, to learn and to grow.
This is a New Year. I chose to make it a good one.
Happy New Year!
posted by PHLOR TORREJOS at 10:50 AM
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