Happy New Year – 2021 (Post #12)

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It’s so cliché, but today actually is the first day of the rest of your life, and mine. It also happens to be the first day of the new year, at least on the Gregorian calendar. I am grateful and relieved to have 2020 behind us. What a strange year! Who could have ever imagined what it held in store? Nonetheless, today I will salute 2020 and bid it farewell.

I don’t know about you, but I decided to refrain from making any 2021 New Year’s Resolutions. While the commitment may be genuine at the time, New Year’s Resolutions are most certainly doomed to failure, leaving a wake of regret and disappointment. No, I’m choosing not to carry that load around anymore (even if I am carrying around the same body weight I was resolved to take off last year).

Instead, I will step boldly into 2021. I will endeavor to make every day better than the last. I believe God always has more possibility awaiting us. So, I will make a new kind of commitment, but instead of looking toward this year I will look toward the rest of my life – taking it one day at a time. Instead of carnal goals like loosing weight or saving money, though I do hope to do both this next year, I will endeavor to focus on that which supports my soul and my spirit.

  • I will leave my past failures in the past, I will not dredge them up and take them with me into the new year.
  • I will deny shame any place in my life. Life is too short for shame and blame.
  • I will be thankful for all of the blessings and hardships I have had thus far in my life, for those experiences have shaped who I have become.
  • I will embrace an attitude of gratitude, for what I have (like my adorable dog!) and what I don’t have.

What does your soul and spirit need in this new year? Be kind to yourself and take it one day at a time. I’m in your corner…and I hope 2021 brings you ENOUGH of all you truly desire!

Enough Violence, Minneapolis? (Post #7)

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Unless you’re living under a rock these days, you have surely seen news coverage of the violence and devastation occuring in several major cities in the United States. Emotions are high and its difficult to make sense of all that is happening.

I think the measure of enough is hard to find in this haze, but I know that it is there. It is always there, lurking between too little and way too much. When are the protests enough to get their point across? What actions should the authorities take, what would be enough? What actions are too little and what are too much? When did the peaceful protests of the Martin Luther King, Jr. era become too little? Where on the spectrum is looting and burning the businesses that many innocent people worked their lives to build?

What is enough change? How will enough healing occur? When will there be enough listening to truly hear? When will the violence be enough for productive change, but not so much that it irreparably hurts a noble cause?

Tonight, my heart cries “enough, please, enough!”

Enough…for Breakfast! (Post #5)

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I recently discovered soft boiled eggs. This beautiful little discovery has changed my life (well, ok, that’s maybe a bit dramatic, at least it has changed my Saturday morning breakfast routine).

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I’ve always been a fan of the poached egg. There is something so luxurious about a beautiful pillow of perfectly cooked egg white hiding that rich, golden yolk. I just love it. Yet, it seems I can never get it right at home. Whenever I try, I just end up frustrated and wishing I had elves to clean up the tragic experiment. The only place I’ve been able to really experience true poached egg perfection is at a pricey brunch establishment.

Now, I have perfected the soft boiled egg. Too easy. Egg perfection without the hefty price tag (and without getting out of my jammies) is now mine. At home. I am in love and content and grateful…this is enough!

BTW – for Perfect Soft Boiled Eggs just bring some water to a full boil in a small sauce pan. Then take a couple eggs directly from the fridge and put then in the pan. Turn the heat down to medium and set timer for 5 minutes. Then remove eggs and instantly run them under cold water, carefully peel, and enjoy!