Hi Everyone,

New Year’s Eve gives us permission to look at the future. It’s a night for planning. It stirs hope, anticipation, excitement, surprise, adventure, joy and allows us to wish for what ever we want. It’s a night to dream big! New Years day the work begins to convert those dreams to reality.

Today I read an inspirational message that spoke about Faith in the Future. There was one line that jumped out to me; ‘Your faith in the future enables you to be your best in the present. It is by envisioning the positive possibilities that you begin to make them real’ ~ Ralph Marston

This makes sense on paper but the day to day grind, the insurmountable obstacles, the petty non-sense that life throws at us is the leading cause for our losing faith in the future. We can’t see the future when we are focused on the negative in the present. How do we remain hopeful, ‘envision the positive possibilities’ when the unexpected derails and/or delays the faith that those dreams can be a reality?

The answer is in the question ~ the future doesn’t have a timeline. Are we limiting our hopes and dreams to what can be accomplished in 2013?

This night two years ago, I sat with Corey in her hospital bed. She was unconscious and unable to move. I sat with her because I didn’t want to go back to the dorm alone. Last year, I sat with her in the family room (our home hospital room). She could move her right side, was more alert but still unable to fully communicate. This year we ate dinner together in the kitchen and talked about the wishes she wanted to make for the New Year.

I looked at her and I was reminded of how many nights I struggled with my faith. Would she heal and recover? I have been afraid to be hopeful for the future. The future is infinite when I want structure and closure.

Living one day at a time is painful until enough days pass and suddenly the future we wished for is revealed in our present. Tonight, my past wishes were granted, Corey was sitting in front of me, healing, recovering. That awareness renews my faith and hope. Tonight envisioning the positive possibilities of the future is a little easier than it was last year or the year before.

Happy New Year to all our friends and family…we wish you a year filled with positive possibilities and faith in the future that they will come true!

Corey’s New Year’s Eve wish; “to walk by myself with no one helping me”…everything is possible sweetie! xoxo