Don’t you love it when you wake up on January 1st and among the clutter of your life take account of the past year??? Truly, it’s a good thing we didn’t know what would happen in advance of our lives because we might just decide there was way too much room for crap.
This year I went through a separation with my husband, got diagnosed with diabetes, spent a week in hospital for dangerously high blood pressure, saw my daughter charged with assault with a weapon and sent to a mental hospital, got skunked at the veterinary hospital who bled me for 500 bucks because my cat had a crushed foot pad, got up every night to change my nightgown, but as God as my witness I sit here in my long johns counting my blessings.
My marriage improved, my blood pressure can be controled by medication and my diabetes can be controlled by diet and my daughter isn’t in jail. I made a good living last year on my own terms and thinking on it I realize I endured.
New Year resolutions should be funny because they usually end up in disaster anyway. But in my own eccentric and zany way I couldn’t help reflecting that there were probably some reforms to my lifestyle that bear consideration.
First of all I am going to get new long johns. And I’m going to take a bath once a year whether I need it or not.
I have to give up carbs and I don’t know what to do. Maybe smoke some pot instead. I’m also going to use fewer Damitol pills this year and go for more Gladital.
There is a twisted willow ( I hope you pick up on this metaphor) at the end of our sidewalk. For some time I’ve been collecting lost mittens and gloves. I’m gonna get some clothes pins and decorate the tree with them. I’m going to make a hopeful tree, a statement that the many hands of God are always with us and that we need not dread what the next day will bring.
I want to be fully open to all the blessings that are offered to me this year. I want to be okay with my daily challenges and ambitions. I want to be enfolded into the love of God not because my life is perfect but because God turns all things to good for those who love him.
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Yeah, this year stunk for me, too.
I actually don’t take stock of the past year, nor do I make resolutions. I have in the back of my mind some changes I’d like to see in me, but I don’t worry about them. I’ve discovered that, for the most part, looking at the positive and not worrying about the negatives, too much anyway, brings changes at their own pace.
Maybe we could cut those carbs together? I need to lose weight and low carb is the best. It’s just so hard to get started… but, I know from experience, once you do for it for a week or so it’s much easier not to miss those darned things!
BTW, I’ve been thinking about you and I’d love it if you’d email me at thurmanlady@hotmail.com. ♥