Each year
we are faced with the challenging opportunity of making our list of
resolutions! What is it we would truly like to improve about ourselves? What
qualities are going to help us succeed with our goals and aspirations? For
those seeking new and higher places of attainment within our circle of life, is
our goal primarily material, or is there room for being a more spiritually
aware and aligned person?
We must be
careful to set our boundaries within realistic objectives. t Too many
resolutions, we may become overwhelmed and not fulfill our goal. So let us go
easy on ourselves, and prioritize. The first and most important question we
should start with, is this:
1. Are we satisfied with the direction
we are headed, or do we need a new recipe for change in our life? Remember if
our house is built on a strong foundation, then the likelihood of success with
our plans is more achievable.
2. To do this we must take a good look
at ourselves, not change who we are, after all, we are what God made us to be,
but we can improve on who we are, to become that special person God intended us
to be!
3. Yes, most of us need more. Money,
and all those items that may give us a better way of life, is important, but be
careful they may not bring happiness. If you are not doing what makes you
happy, chances are, no one else around you is going to be happy either.
So the first
rule for yourself, take care of your own needs. Then you will be in a better
position, to tend to the needs of others, such as family and so on.
Remember
our planet was built in six days, and God rested on the seventh. Whether that
was six million years or some other form of time, the fraction clearly
expresses to us a lot about our creator? To me, is that out of the seven days,
our God worked six. So what does this tell us? God was a doer, a creator and
over 85% of the time he was out there making things happen. Yes he took time to
reflect, but the time for philosophizing is extremely small in comparison to the
sweat and hard work it takes to be successful. We have an innate consciousness
as to what is expected from us, and yes it’s good to take time to reflect. But in
the end it’s not going to happen by thinking and talking. It’s going to happen
by DOING!
At night I
look up and marvel at the stars, the creations before our eyes and the wonder
that this universe brings to us. If it took seven days to create this planet,
then the creator has not been idle, I can only wonder at such magnificence to
behold. To think we are still in an expanding universe.
Our ‘health
is our wealth,’ and as the old saying goes hard work never killed anyone, but
worry and stress will.
The study
of our universe since my young days has always been a hobby. I’ve often laid
awake at night and asked the question as a young child, what do we all do when
we pass on? It’s hard for me to believe that we live in this higher existence
of love and endless sunshine. As the years have pressed on I have come to the
conclusion through thought and prayer, that our journey here is only one to
prepare us for the greater journey of helping our creator in this unbelievable
part of the universe. To look about us and see all that has been created and
how little so many of us appreciate what we have, concerns me. It is my hope
and wish that more of us think this way, and open our hearts and minds to the
spectacular journey ahead of us.
For me
science and spirituality are one, it is in their separation that conflicting
debate arises. A God like the one we have, could not have accomplished so much
for all of us, without the unification of all these aspects within our world.
For it is said, “That I am the Alpha and
the Omega, and all that has been done and is, comes from me”! As I
understand these words, we in our attempt to learn, make mistakes. The endless love,
compassion and forgiveness that God allows us, is in order to learn, it is this
that makes us only value his work with more depth and understanding.
So God
bless you all on your journey of life, and a very HAPPY NEW YEAR.
David Francis
;) Happy New Year to you!
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