Here we are, God. Busily coming and going and all the while Your Heavens declare Your Glory. Mind You, Your Glory is easier to see here on Oahu. This photo, snapped with my cell phone while waiting for the light to change, doesn’t capture the brilliant blue of the sky and the brightness of the white clouds. Doesn’t take one’s breath away with the beauty of it all.
Still, I like it as a reminder of the contrast between the world we have created (see cars) and the world You have given us. After a busy Christmas season of shopping and giving — it is good to sit here in the silence and appreciate all that YOU have given — are giving. Perspective.
And, we come now to another New Year. . . sitting here looking back on the OLD YEAR and pondering the NEW. Resolutions beckon. How exactly do I want to be different in this New Year? What a GIFT to be given a DIVIDER like this. An opportunity to stand in the doorway of Time and look both backwards and forwards. Perhaps, before looking forward, it would be helpful to look back and consider the old year.
It was a year filled with significant birthdays and anniversaries and celebrations and visits. And also a year in which I was able to SEE some of my small social fears — and in seeing them, be to some extent free of them. Free enough to lose some long attached extra weight. That was a nice by-product of a bit more courage. COURAGE? Yes, in 2010 I feel called to exercise the courage of looking at and into myself. INWARD?
Yes, YES! I seem to hear You say: It won’t be THAT frightening. And then — is it You or me –a voice saying THINK OF ALL THE OPPORTUNITIES TO FORGIVE AND LOVE AND CARE FOR YOURSELF! Hmmm. Must be YOU as the idea of looking at and into myself makes my toes curl up. Curled toes — a sign of fear — and then a cheerful COME ON, IT WON’T BE THAT BAD — reverberates in my being.
Sigh, O.K. God. With YOUR HELP!
Story teller,
A Moment with God 
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