525,600 Minutes

January 1 has always made me a little giddy; like getting clean notebooks on the first day of school. This year though, I'm awed by the possibilities and eager to write something that matters, on the fresh pages of my life. There's 525,600 minutes stretched out before me; I can't wait to get started!

Do you make traditional resolutions? I used to, but I never stuck with them. Losing weight and getting organized are still on my list for 2009, but they're not at the top. They will come as the priorities align. My top 5; I need to:

• stabilize my children, and get them healthy.
  
• find a Spirit filled church to plug into and read the Bible cover to cover.
  
• get a job, an apartment and make a budget.
  
• learn to trust again, especially myself.
  
• make my children smile more often and take more pictures.

Of course I'd only be giving you half a list without including things like getting rid of my gray hairs and vowing to find a sense of style that all is mine. I need to find the whole me. Thank goodness there's over half a million minutes; I'm gonna need every single one.

525,600 minutes, moments so dear; how do you measure a year? In daylights, in sunsets, in midnights, in cups of coffee, in inches, in miles, in laughter - In Love. 525,600 journeys to plan; it's time now to sing out; the story never ends. You know that love is a gift from up above, share love, give love, spread love...

measure your life in love.

Happy New Year,
Carolynn