It’s a New Year!

January 1, 2017 Off By Deby Jizi

“Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success…” ~Louisa May Alcott, Little Women, 1868

This is my first post of 2017, and I have committed myself to making this blog about what is good in the world. I hope that if you come here again, you will find something that lifts your spirit and sends you into the day ready to see the beauty in life.

This morning I spent several hours reflecting on the year to come. I am not usually the person to wait until New Year’s Day to make resolutions, but I can see the benefit of pausing on this day, a symbolic beginning at least, and reflecting on my life, where I have been and where I am going.

Many are talking about last year and how ready we all are to leave it behind, and that is one reason I decided to focus on the good and the beauty in life. Last year I, too, got caught up in the negativity. I lost sight of what is important. I lost perspective of the wonderful gift we all wake up with every single day, the fact that we are alive. I realize many people woke up day after day last year wondering if they could survive until nightfall, and my heart truly goes out to all who suffer. However, my misery doesn’t make theirs go away. If I want to help, I must do more than commiserate.

My life has to be about more than being indignant at the suffering in the world. Either I decide to make things better in my own way, or I join the misery. I choose the former. This blog is going to be about finding ways to add to the beauty, to the good.

We can never have too much good, and maybe someone somewhere will read this and it will give them hope of a new way of seeing the world. That is more precious than gold to me.

Happy New Year to You!

Peace,

Deby