Relections January 2017

So.  Here it is the beginning of a new year.  I've got to admit, I'm very optimistic about what's to come.  I truly believe the best days of my life are just ahead. I'm in a good place right now.

My beautiful daughter just turned 18 and graduates from high school in May 2017.  Whew! The time is flying by!  She has plans to attend college in the fall.  I know God has big plans for her life.  She is so wise beyond her years and her faith filled life truly amazes me on a daily basis.  She is truly a wonderful human.  Although this will be a huge change for our family, I'm excited to see what she does in this world.  I know it will be something wonderful.
.  I believe.  I have faith.  I have hope.  And it feels good!

2016 was full of lessons in letting go.  Letting go of old baggage I'd been carrying around for years.  Letting go of wanting to control and know everything.  Letting go of relationships. Letting go of the misconception that I'm not enough.  Letting go of anxieties of the past and future. Letting go of the notion that I am less than. You get the idea, I let go of a lot of junk. Letting go of the past.  Letting go of the future. Learning to let go has been a really tough lesson for me.  Seems I've had a recurring theme in my life of losing. I tend to hang on too tightly to things/people that I'm afraid of losing. I realize that holding on too tightly to anything or anyone is unhealthly and unproductive.  The one thing you can count on in life is change.  Just go with it.  It is what it is and very rarely can you do anything about it.  Roll with it.

Today, at the beginning of 2017, I feel a renewed sense of spirit.  I feel lighter.  I'm far from perfect but the progress of positive has been so significant that I feel like a renewed person.  I'm renewed in the Love, Mercy and Graces of Jesus Christ.  In the midst of all the messiness/craziness there have been so many blessings.  People that God has placed in my life to love me right where I am and help me to do better.  Circumstances to teach me how much God loves everyone of us.  Circumstances to teach me how blessed I truly am.  Situations to become an open vessel for God's love.  Situations to remind me that in the big scheme of things, all is truly well with my soul.