Five Steps to Real Change in the New Year

The New Year wears hope like a fragrance.

I watch a new day of the first month of a brand new year come, breaking up over the horizon, up through hopelessness, there on the rim of our fields and the scent, fresh, carries in on the wind... carries me.

Unspoiled winter stretches across our fields -- like an unfurled year awaiting new ways of walking.

How will I trek out across this new year?











And then I catch a whiff of it, that stench.

That decaying rank that I know all too well: fear. Fear that I am impotent of change, that new ways can’t be my ways.


What if I will always be this way… (fill in the blank with fear of personal choice: self-centered, unhealthy,  unmotivated, debt-ridden, angry, anxious, unorganized, unfulfilled…)

What if our family, this marriage, these children, stagnate, fester, languish? What if all our tomorrows are just more of all our yesterdays?

 I look out across our fields of white into a New Year and I have a new plan.


To read each step of my Five Step Plan to Real Change in the New Year...




Photos: winter wonderland of HOPE here...
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