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What’s your vision for 2013?
No, that’s not a typo– I didn’t mean 2012. I mean 2013. Where or what will be true of your life in less than 12 months from now when the flip of the calendar goes from 2012 to 2013?
Barely into the New Year, 2012 resolutions are new and hopefully not yet broken. At the beginning of the year, we look ahead, make plans, but primarily our focus is on the footsteps in front of us.
Instead, I envision 2013. Clear in my head, it’s a picture of the end result of a work in process.
As a follow-up to my last post, I thought I’d pose some ideas on how to establish a life mentor or mentors in your own life. There are two steps to this – finding a mentor and forming a mentor. Once you do these two things, it’s a matter of sticking with it and making a commitment to getting together regularly.
As I mentioned in my earlier post, my mentors came to me as part of a faith-based group. Faith-based groups are a great place to find mentors, as you are already in a more open, vulnerable place when in one of these groups. So, a prayer, meditation, or support group can be a great place to find a mentor.
You may not yet have heard of Ben Breedlove. But chances are that if you’re on Facebook, one of your friends posted a link to two YouTube videos called “My Story” in the last few days. In these simple videos, an extraordinary young man delivers a message one week before he passed away on Christmas Day of a heart attack.
Ben’s message was simple: do not be afraid of death.
He was eighteen years old.
If you haven’t noticed it’s Christmas time. And while I LOVE Christmas for giving me the opportunity to celebrate the people I love by shopping for them, I understand that the holiday is divisive. Some people cannot stand Christmas– too materialistic, too stressful. Others do not celebrate Christmas because they are not Christian. Many just celebrate because of tradition and duty.
Recently, I have become obsessed with this show called My Ghost Story. It’s a show where people talk about their alleged paranormal experience. I watch this show with a believing, skeptic eye.
My personal belief is that there are those who, for some reason, haven’t crossed to the other side. My other personal belief is that many people will say anything to be on TV and/or make a buck. Hence the believing, skeptic eye.
One story, which I decided after looking at the “evidence” wasn’t true, was about a loved one’s spirit living in the house with the surviving family members. However, while I didn’t trust the “evidence” of that story, I do honestly think that beings are there for others even after they die.
The holidays are absolutely my most favorite time of the year!
I get to spend time with my family, friends, and we just simply enjoy one another.We engage in the exchanging of gifts, visit each others homes and spent time being thankful and grateful for what we have, as well as, what we don’t have.
But I can’t help to think of those who are less fortunate and struggle with life’s most simple pleasures, that so many of us take for granted; such as a warm home to go to, a hot meal to eat, or clothing to protect their flesh from the winter cold. Being grateful is more than just saying that you are, it’s about proving that you are!
At Thanksgiving, it is right and proper to consider those Founders who brought us to this place and time in history. Some of them, the Puritans, have been the center of attention in classrooms across the land. Children learn that the Puritans sought freedom from religious intolerance and sailed to this North American continent in order to find it. They struggled and strove, but could not succeed without the aid of America’s first citizens, the Native American tribes. From them and their generosity arose the legend of the First Thanksgiving when European and Native Americans broke bread together.
