Happy New Year & God Bless!

As we celebrate the New Year we are also looking back on what has been an exciting year of new developments in our lives. It is not just the passing of a year, no it is so much more. We are blessed to have one of our kids finish college with two degrees, the start of two in high school and the youngest in fourth grade.  The joy of our children as well as the challenges all parent face of helping them develop into young adults. Experience tells me that one of the most important things we can do for our kids, is to help them develop a foundation of knowledge and beliefs that assist them in making good decisions. We see another year of mileage on all the things that make our lives work from our bodies, cars, spiritual growth, relationships, friends and family to mention a few. Each of these areas of our life will never be the same as it was before because as the clock keeps ticking so does the changes in life. It itself is not a good or bad thing, it is just a statement of the reality. I'm ever so thankful to be able to see a New Year (2011) and look back on the past year with a sense of accomplish in so many areas of our lives. We are blessed for so many reasons, being it our walk with God, health, family, new and old friends and the all the small miracles along the way as I call them. What do I mean by that, well I truly believe there are so many opportunities for us to be thankful to God that we just let past by as a bit of luck, our skills and abilities, chance, being in the right place at the right time, turning left instead of right, a snap decision or one we decided to sleep on or pray about before we moved forward. All opportunities to thank God, that I believe we so many times just take for granted. As we go into the New Year my wish for everyone is that you and yours will take a minute to realize how truly blessed you are and give the appropriate amount of thanks and praise to the God. Yes God (John 3:16),  who made the greatest sacrifice a father can make by sending his son to die so that we might live. It doesn't get any better than that, to have a love so great that you would die for it. It is with joy and anticipation that I look forward to the coming year because I believe this is the year of open doors and the seeds that we have planted in so many areas of our life will come to harvest and we will see the promise of God's goodness in our lives. It is by his grace that we are blessed to see and live and I just want to say Happy New Year to all and Thank You to God for everything!