Just Do One Thing

I wish you all a happy and healthy 2012.  I guess I have never understood or appreciated the hoopla that surrounds New Year’s Eve.  What the beginning of a new calendar year signifies for me is a chance to reflect on the good things in my life and on those that are not quite so good.  What do I need to change in my life to fully be the person that God created me to be?  Of course, there are the usual candidates – lose weight, take better care of myself, go to the gym, don’t work so hard, play more, manage my time better, etc.  It certainly would be to my benefit to keep these yearly resolutions so during the coming weeks I will take time to reflect on and reorder my priorities as necessary, and if I am honest with myself, the changes that I need to make will happen.

The most important resolution I can make is to try and let go; let go of all my efforts to be in control; to let go of the my insecurities; the anxieties, hurts, and stresses that constantly disturb the peace and hope that is mine because Jesus became incarnate and entered into our world and changed everything.  I know that our God loves me unconditionally as I am; both the good and the bad. All he asks of me is to trust him, to put my faith in him, to let him take control and try to stay out of his way.

Winter is a quiet time when all of nature rests and prepares for the new life that comes in the spring.  Hopefully, this winter – this new year- I will use my time to learn to rest in God thereby renewing my life, faith and hope.

~Barbara Dury