Happy New Year 2024!! I bless you all with a wonderful New Year filled with love, joy, peace, healing and prosperity…. This last year has been rough for so many… I feel it… I am going through it.
The heaviness from this stress hangs over this country like a blanket….
We still can choose our attitude and how we we face these challenges. We can choose to stand up every time we fall and dust ourselves off and continue to run the race. We can choose to have gratitude instead of an unpleasant attitude.
If good things can come from challenging circumstances…. Can we still call them bad?
When babies, are learning to walk do we get mad at them when they trip and fall? No, we help them back up and cheer them on to do it again, clapping and shouting you can do it…. Yes, you can do it!!!! They get up and smile and get so excited they go from trying to walk to trying to run, climb, jump….. They get better the more they practice and their will to practice is stronger because of the encouragement and the patience but especially the love they feel….
Can you imagine shouting at a baby for falling, or blaming the ground for making them fall?
So many of us do……Though… I know I have. Not at babies…. Well, but if I am honest, I have done this to babies as well..If it is something someone has never done before… are they not a baby? We say practice makes perfect.
Why do we put an age limit on this…
Is it because we have lost patience and hope that they will ever learn or is it our disappointment in what we think is our inability to teach and so we fear that we have failed, and we fear failure?
If we hate ourselves, for being less than perfect how can we we truly give grace to those who are also just as imperfect as we…
So, we have become a society of pointing fingers elsewhere, because we cannot bear to look at I…. or the We….. Some us do not see that when we point our fingers at another, we have millions of those fingers pointing right back at us.
Few are owning it for themselves…. That includes me…..
This year, I am owning me… I am facing my fear and my pain head on and not pointing fingers elsewhere anymore….
All I ask is that you all be patient with me please…Practice makes perfect and even though I am half a century old. I am like a baby when it comes to this…
I will fall, and sometimes walk blindly into things because I DID NOT KNOW THEY WERE THERE!!!!
It is like learning anything. You do not know until you know, you know? So, when I fall next time, I come to that I will know what is waiting for me and choose differently. Each time, I fall, I am learning….. will get further and further…… Sometimes it may take me a few times falling in the same place to realize…. Oh, 🤦♂️, I need to do it this way…
I will learn it because I will focus on how I can change me. I also can learn from those who have already learned what to do because they themselves have gone through it.
I also am going to remain teachable…. Humble….and offer myself the grace I give others…. and not expect things I myself am not willing to give.
I pray all of you will give yourself Grace this New Year too.
All the New Years resolutions made will take practice.
So Today Is a new day… A day we all get to begin again.
It is going to be okay. You will make it. Just do not give up. Never give up….I love you….
