2014 New Beginnings

Another year has come and gone. There have been so many changes. People have come and gone from our lives and there have been opportunities taken and missed. I have decided to make 2014 a year that I look into opportunities with my eyes wide open and consider things that I may not have considered before. I will make a commitment to become even closer to God than I have been in the past, I will reach out to people and reconnect with those that I haven't seen or talked to for a long time. I have spent the day making connections with family that I haven't seen except for funerals since I was a child. It has always saddened me as I get older when I see families that have stayed connected all their lives and know that I have family members that my children will never know. For that matter there are family members that I haven't met yet. At one time these are people my family would make a point to visit or talk to on a regular basis, but now it has been left to us, the children, to make these connections last and we have failed. I hope to make a change in this because we all need family. I found out today that I have lost loved ones that I had always intended to keep in touch with as I grew older, but life always seemed to get in the way. If you want to have people reach out to you and make an effort to stay in touch you have to make that effort yourself.

I not only want to reach out to family I also want to reach out to those people that I haven't met yet. A stranger that starts a conversation in the store, someone that looks like they may just need a smile or kind word in a doctors office. I want to tell more people what God has done in my life and how He can make such a huge difference in their life also. I want everyone to know that there is someone that loves them more than anyone here on earth can love them. Someone that gave His son so that they may have everlasting life. I want the joy that has been given to me to spread like wild fire through everyone I meet and leave a smoldering ember that will grow larger and larger with a need to hear more about God's abundant love. A fire that can never be extinguished by water, but only fed by the word of God.

2013 a year that has passed, memories that will last a lifetime. 2014 a year of new beginnings, new outlooks and old family and friends reunited. Wouldn't it be nice to go through a year without any plans for tomorrow but just to wake up and see what happens? We don't live in a world where we can do that, but I can try to wake up everyday with an outlook that leads me to be more flexible in the plans I do have for the day. I hope if you read this you have made a commitment to put God first in your life and let Him show you the road to travel. It may be a road full of ups and downs, but in the end what better driver could you have?

May God Bless You with more than you can imagine in this new year.
Tammy