Happy New Year

Once again, we have been

given another chance, another

attempt to get it right, another

calendar with blank pages that

will be filled, one way or another.

 What can we fill them with?

A lot of laughter and crying,

some compassion, and more

than a little kindness. We can

stand boldly for what is right.

We can buy some seed,

Plant something, anything,

and watch it grow.  We

can share what we know and

what we grow, green happiness.

 We can do something we have

never done before; something

so far outside of our comfort

zone that no one believes you

can make it.  But you will.

 We can go somewhere we have

never been before, in a car or

a train or a ship or a book.  We

can use our minds to soar through

the stars and come home again.

 We can pray for wisdom and

apply the gifts we are given.

We can listen, we can linger,

we can love, and we can hug.

It can be the best that's ever been.

~Wanda Stricklin Robertson