Let go and let God!

Let go and let God! 

For some 17 years I try to understand and apply this little message, and I think I might be getting close to understanding it, now that in the past year I lost very dear people in my life. It takes time to process the losses, and accept the death.

Let go!...

But it takes even more time and more courage to face that big changes take place in the life of those left behind.Some questions and fears and concerns of what next? It seems just as we cannot change death there is little really indeed to change and control but more to wisely accept and deal with.

Let God!...

Irish Blessing

May God grant you always

A sunbeam to warm you

A moonbeam to charm you

A sheltering angel so nothing can harm you

Laughter to cheer you

Faithful friends near you

And whenever you pray

Haven to hear you

For the New Year

Lord God of Universe

Bless me

Deliver me for worries and lukewarm indecisions

Protect me from harm, sadness, and pain

Fill my soul with joy

Give me wisdom

Give me strength

   And peace of mind. 

May your hand be always above me

   And your face shine upon me

All the days of my life. 

giving and receiving

"Give, and it will be given to you. They will pour into your lap a good measure-pressed down, shaken together, and running over. For by your standard of measure it will be measured to you in return."

Luke 6:38 

I think giving and making gifts can be just as a disease as the shopping addiction.

Some people go shopping when they feel bad, sad, down, depressed, or too lonely, or completely bored.

Giving can be just as a strong impulse. Difficult to control, slippery slope. 

I noticed that I cannot refrain myself to know that a friend would need something, or like something but cannot afford to have, or just to know that some item might bring joy to someone else. Making someone be happy reflects happiness and one can feed on it. 

I once read somewhere that giving creates more pleasure than receiving. And indeed it takes a lot of strength and courage to be at the end of receiving. And if anyone would know I know that, since I was for many years at the end of graciously and thankfully receiving.
I think it might be that time making me to give now even if are times when I should not afford and refrain myself. It is because I know exactly how thankful one can be when receiving. 

Hope for New Year

Hebrews 11:1 
"Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen."
Here I close the door of this old year and hopefully and faithfully opening the window of a brand New Year!
Call the family and friends, write to loved ones, or keep them in heart and thoughts with good wishes for a happy new year!
Make new year resolutions -- uselessly since I don't keep them. 
It is time to be faithful that hopes will come true, that the road of life will lead forward in joy and peace. 
Now it is time to hope for things unseen and have the faith that they will come true!