New Year, New.......

Clean slate, blank sheet of paper, fresh start, unplowed ground. Any one of these phrases may have crossed your lips in the last week. We maybe looking forward to 2011 as a chance to put behind anything, or all things that have not been easy, have been messy, have been stressful or just have been unnecessary. But the truth is that after 55 years of living this life, I have found who I am right now is not as easy to move away from as the act of shredding the old me and starting with a clean sheet of paper.
 Like all stories, you can't proceed ahead with a story without having the back story, the prequel, if you will. No matter what my current story, or my future story, the prequel will be the same, the prequel is what happened 20 years ago, 20 days ago and 20 minutes ago. When I think of this, I realize that every moment is that clean slate, or fresh start, only when I look back at the prequel will I, and probably a few other people in my life, realize the times when I really did make a fresh start.
Here are a few dates in the prequel the story took a turn that made the story I know today. Christmas Eve 1975, April 16,1976, October 23, 1976, July 1977, March 3, 1979, September 1981, September 1987, Thanksgiving 1987, and January 4, 1988. These are just a few (and the most significant,) moments in time,, that are all markers, signposts with arrows, forks in the road etc, that brought to me a fresh start, a blank slate. Each one of these "starts" in it's own way, has made me who I am today.
 Speaking of today, it's Monday, January 3, 2011, first day back at work after being off for over a week. It's also the day before the anniversary of beginning the work I do now.
 January 4, 1988 I started working for Kraft. Now with 23 years behind me, I guess it can be said to be a career. Even with that said, today is a new day, and a new week and a new story.
 I hope this year to heed the words of Christ from Matthew 6:34, this is from the Message version:
 "Give your entire attention to what God is doing right now, and don't get worked up about what may or may not happen tomorrow. God will help you deal with whatever hard things come up when the time comes."
Blessings to you, hoping your new year is full of blank paper to be filled with a great story and your unplowed ground sprouts beautiful flowers and abundant crops!
Happy 2011!
Peace my friends.

Happy New Year!

The minimum to wish you all!
May 2011 be all you wish for, all you can do and all you can be for yourself and others.
Peace my friends.