It is a real blessing to live to see another day!!

The 1st of January 2024 came with lots of celebrations, prayers of gratitude, and resolutions about being different or doing things differently… And rightly so.
But that day has gone now and will never be returned to us to live again.

We are left with new days to look forward to and TODAY to embrace and live to the full.

New Year’s Day after New Year’s Day, we wake up with great expectations, hoping we have somehow miraculously morphed into the slender, suave, organised, meticulous, generous, and marvelous beings we believe we should be. We seem to think that the New Year’s Eve celebrations would somehow intoxicate us or transform us or prepare us to be different the next day.

I wake up every New Year’s Day as the same person, the same ME – with the same hopes and dreams, frustrations and desires, struggles and expectations. It is then up to the same ME to choose and resolve to live every new day in a way that honours my uniqueness and shows WHOSE I am.

The new year doesn’t magically make our problems of the year before disappear, we still need to choose to engage and be present in the reality of our present lives, whether it’s our internal frustrations, the stresses of our jobs, the arguments between our children, the insecurities in our friendships or the hardship in our communities. The “new year” doesn’t take these things away. However, we’re presented with new opportunities on a daily basis to have victories in these areas. Little victories have a way of swelling up into big victories and these then become a wave of victory that can carry on throughout the new year. Can I get an Amen?

This 2024, take life one day at a time. Seize the day! Seize the opportunities to grow daily! Seize each moment of joy! Don’t give up after the first week in January; there are many more days in this first month and many more days beyond that to keep learning to live loved, love others, and be your best!

The new year is just a series of new days – every day, we can choose to be better, brighter, and bigger than we were the day before. I don’t mean bigger in size, but bigger in attitude.

LOOK OUT FOR UNEXPECTED BLESSINGS!!! Every day is littered with them. Shout them out, make sweet music about them, and get others in on them.

So, enjoy this new year by enjoying every day you are blessed to see.

Someone rightly said – Sometimes you will never know the value of a MOMENT until it becomes a MEMORY.

Someone also said – Don’t put off till tomorrow what you can do today unless someone did it yesterday!