Happy New Year....Reflection is good....'2019....'Time' to move on....

Happy New Year...Reflection is good......2019 ....'Time' to move on. 

So many times we reflect on the past year and think and/or express such words as; 'I wish that I would have',  'New Year, I am going to', 'If I was younger', 'if I had it all to do over'.  
Any of these sound familiar?  No doubt, at least one.  

As the 2020 New Year begins, I pray every one of us will start it with a renewed hope, love and trust in ourselves and in others.  Above all else, I pray we will seek a 'renewed awareness' in our Lord and Savior. 

I am going to list a few 'thoughts' of thinkers and 'statements' that might be fun to take a look at.  Perhaps, some would like to 'ponder' a few of them for encouragement and reflection in approaching a better start into the New Year.  Or, some might just enjoy reading and moving on.  
To those of you who do not like such readings; perhaps, this post is not for you.  Everyone of us is unique and different.  This is to be respected, as well. 

Happy New Year to one and all that might read this post.  I want to take this opportunity to 'thank everyone who has taken the time to read my posts this past year'.  I hope in some small way that I have penned something that has helped or encouraged in some small way.  As I pen in a blog such as this, there is no way of knowing how these writings touch another.  Always and ever, I am taking a leap of faith in my sharing.  As I was reminded by a 'kind friend' this past year; it might be a word, a phrase or something in a poem or reading that might speak to someone through the Spirit.  This would be  refreshing, two fold.  

We are ALL valuable links in 'the chain of life'.  Let us strive to support each link, as we realize; 'WE' are only as strong as our weakness link.
                                          
                                         Thanks, love, peace, hope, grace and blessings to all!
                                         

Until next time, 

God Bless

Doris

'Letting Go' (Part 2)

'Letting Go'  (Part 2) 
Series on 'Heaven, Death, Dying and Letting Go'.

Greetings Friends,
The time has come to conclude this Series.  I touched on 'Letting Go' in part one.
'Letting Go' effects all different steps in our lives.  Our teachers to each step are better shared by persons that have experienced them through the help of our Lord.  

I feel as we digest each subject in this Series with an open mind, our journey can be one of less anxiety and more awareness when we share it with others.  We are never alone, if we so choose.  Remember my referring to, 'A Call of Love' in my last post?  I have found, more and more, as we walk the journey of life that experiences can be shared with great expectations, hope, help, promise and a tool to extend, 'A Call to Love'. 

'Letting Go' is an extension to 'A Call to Love' in many ways. 


'Letting Go' = 'A Call to Love'

                              'Letting Go' is an extension to 'A Call to Love'

                                        Time has a way of moving forward
                                     with good memories of those, we meet.
                         What does it all mean?  Where do we go from here?
          'Letting Go' brings thoughts of wonder and concerns, we must meet.

                                          God has a plan from long ago.
                A plan for 'every single person', He so wants to call His own.
                                            'Choice of 'Will' is offered,
         accepting His Call and mission, grooming us for our final home.

                      Somehow 'Letting Go' gets in our way on our journey.
                        When we are young, we do not realize this as much.
                                        We are in a hurry to grow up,
            start a career, get married, raise our children, 'hold on' and such.

                                        Once those years are behind us,
                                  we start to reflect on the years ahead.
                                         We begin to realize the losses
                we have experienced in family, friends and in other ways.

                'Letting Go' and 'Time' has a way of catching us off guard.
                                 The years seem to pass at a faster pace.
           Hopefully, humility grows in our hearts and we see more clearly,
                        Plus, the Alpha and Omega reflects more Grace.

   Perhaps, we see more clearly, 'Letting Go' means differently to different people.
                        It all hinges on where it is we are with our Lord.
                            Life's memories and experiences are teachers,
                 when our 'Letting Go' is in trusting our Lord, in 'His Call'.
                                                                                        by Doris Swertfeger
                                                                                                       08-04-2013
Until next time
God Bless
Doris