During the holidays I was reminded that life is definitely short. We all use this phrase, but do we really understand the impact of this phrase? The year 2010 was the first year of my life without my grandmother, reminding me of what I have, breath and life, and no matter the situation, let nothing burden you when you know God has given you perfect peace.
I found myself asking God for clarity and direction often in 2010, more often than I have ever before. But I soon realized with the closing of the year that I was asking for guidance and direction, but I didn't have a clear, visible vision nor plan of what I needed guidance and direction for. I found myself aimlessly going through my days, always tired, no refreshment anywhere. However, before the close of 2010, I found it...in Him, a perfect peace and a new outlook, perspective if you will, one that included a plan for the year and small goals to achieve with each approaching month.
This month, in this New Year of 2011, I am embarking on many new experiences, one involving volunteering, a new position with my current employer and a new set of standards that include me writing down the things that I am GOING to do, not will do, must do or have to do, but going to do, with follow-up and follow through in this new year.
Often times, we are our biggest critics, and all too often we murmur and complain, even when we don't admit it, but we rarely create a plan to do things differently so that the outcome will quickly change and not remain the same. During the end of 2010, I was truly reminded of God's grace and mercy on my life, the lives of loved ones, especially my biological children who are both healthy, smart and beautiful. I had been all talk and no action during most of 2010, but that has changed. To see my vision plain as day, to see it when I rise and before I lay brings a newness, an expectancy into my dreams at night that allows me to start each day empowered, stronger, giving more, loving harder, not succumbing to my trials.
I challenge you in the new, to create a new thing within your world, your self, your mind and start to live out the unimaginable. I have said it before, and I will say it again and again, but now with more power and authority, THE BEST IS YET TO COME!!! Especially when you have a plan.
Peace and Blessings,
Shamina
The New
Well, here we are, a toast for creating new beginnings!
Like the kiss that new love has planted softly on your cheek after the first date.
The frost upon the grass when you awake, fresh linens on your bed.
The breath a newborn takes fresh out the womb, your child attempting to ride a bike for the first time, the first time they reach for you, their first utterance of your name.
The new pair of knee boots you rocked on New Year's Eve.
The new awaits you, me, it awaits us all, waiting for us to discover the very thing that makes us who we are.
For me, I am creating the new, the new pep in my step, the new pride in my stride, a new hello along with new goodbyes, a new frame of mind, new people to surprise and entertain, awaiting strangers that know my name, creating a new way to do some things.
The new I am doing this year Boo!!!
