RENEWED YOU


RENEWED YOU

As this past year closes and the new year opens, there is this profound echo of grief that resounds within as we ponder the many beginnings shared with our loved one as we try to move forward into the new year ahead without them.  Listening to Auld Lang Syne echoes this sense of nostalgia that reverberate memories of tender moments and can even evoke memories of  moments that were quite tenuous.  Regardless, you weathered through both.  That’s the beauty of unconditional love –- to experience both sides of the spectrum.  But what really makes any relationship stronger is getting through those rougher storms in life. 

Spend some time these initial weeks of the new year cherishing both sides of those memories with this sense of moving forward.  Ask yourself what is it within you that needs to be renewed.  Are you depressed, stuck, tired, sad all the time, listless, unmotivated, sarcastic, negative…?  Is being down and out how and who you really and truly want to be?  Your loved one already knows that life here on earth is too short and you have to make the best of your time here while you’re still here.  Your loved one would only want you to have the best life you can have.  So don’t look at life through the lens of what you don’t have, but what you do have.  Fix your mind on being grateful they were a part of who you are.  Fix your eyes on how you want to see yourself in the days ahead.  Fix your heart on being renewed and moving forward in your one and only beautiful life.

"Therefore, do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is Eternal."  2Cor 4:16-18

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