A new time for life!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!! 2009 here we come!!!!!

It's a new year and I simply cannot wait for the potential that it holds. Unbeknown discoveries, fulfilled dreams, enticing affairs... a wholly-new slate for each person to do whatever they want with it! Yet, adversely, it's all what one wishes to make of something that determines its worth.

I, for one, have fantastic expectations for this year. I aspire to make it grand. I hope to follow what God is leading me towards in life- in the little things that all combine to create who "Laura Monica Ross" is. It's my first year as a college graduate. Time to delve into greatness!

I missed many people on New Year's Eve. I was with fantastic friends in Philadelphia, and we had a marvelous time, but little pieces of my heart are peppered throughout the world like sections of a popcorn path. It doesn't make for a whole me, but that's ok. I guess it's all in the realm of what it means to love others. They always take a piece of you with them.

My New Year's Resolution?
---To live each day.

Yep, that's what it is. It might sound like a cop-out, but it's not. That resolution has a deep meaning for me. It encompasses being positive about life and difficulties and situations, it means taking advantage of every opportunity that comes my way and yet not taking advantage of anyone, it means being present in the moment and not in yesterday or tomorrow, it means being unafraid, it means being open to everything and not writing anything off, it means listening with my heart to my Heavenly Father, and especially it means loving.

It'll be hard. I'll forget my resolution, as I know I have already. Hopefully I'll bounce back often.

I think no one encompasses my resolution more than one of my favorite writers: Thoreau.

"I went into the woods because I wanted to live deliberately. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life...to put to rout all that was not life; and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."~Henry David Thoreau

Amen!