Blog 198 – 01.01.16

Instead of New Years Resolutions I am starting the New Years with these Intentions:

I Intend that:
I am happy
I am healthy
I am wealthy
I am wise
I am loved
I am loving
I am gracious
I am kind

I used to tease my daughter Emily when she was a little girl that she like Amalie Motor Oil was “Better than it (she) has to be, Amalie (Emily). I do not mourn or grieve the loss of my daughter who left this stage three and a half years ago to perform in a Bigger Room to a larger audience. I do not buy into the “you never get over or passed the loss of a child.” Folks, life is for the living, life goes on with you or without you and as the song I quoted recently says, “If you get the chance to sit it out or dance. I hope you dance.” Don’t sit it out. Catch your breath if you must but quickly as you can get back in the race.

A former boss of mine loss a little toddler daughter in a tragic drowning in their home pool. He and his wife decided to have another child right away. I believe a little angel in heaven is watching them love that new sister and is smiling and dancing that their lives are going on.

When you spend one moment crying over yesterday you have given up one moment of today. “This is the day that the LORD (and I have made). I will rejoice and be glad in it.”
We are Co-creators with God/the Universe. He inspires with desires and we bring about those desires in our life by imagining them, investing emotion in them, and taking steps in the right direction.

Last summer I purchased a CD called Stages by Josh Groban. I highly recommend it to everyone. His voice is so beautiful that he could make Mary Had A Little Lamb sound like it ought to be on The Top Ten music charts. There are many familiar songs on the CD. From Willie Wonks’s Chocolate Factory Josh picked Imagination and he makes it come alive. I never gave much thought to the power of imagination to create a better world, a better life but Josh’s rendering of the song Imagination makes it so clear.

In a tribute to his slain brother Bobby, Ted Kennedy quoted a remark his brother had made or at least the last part of it. I include the larger quote:
“Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential vital quality for those who seek to change a world that yields most painfully to change … Some men see things as they are and say, Why? But I dream things that never were and say, Why not?”

Have the courage to imagine a better, brighter day. See yourself a part of it. See yourself better than you have to be and we will all have a Happier New Year.

Your friend and fellow traveler,
David White