Happy New Year everyone!!

My cousin Cindy in Texas (have another in Arizona) sent this most perfect New Year's resolution to us and it is worded so beautifully that it needed to be passed on here.

May each of you find this wonderful new year full of success and happiness, and may it fill your hearts to overflowing with love.

Namaste!

Light, Life, & Love.

Cole

"A true heart makes wishes come true."

                                   Chinese Proverb

From: Cindy A. Carey
Sent: Friday, January 02, 2009 06:42
To: Cindy A. Carey
Subject: Happy New Year!

Hello!

Every single morning of the year we awaken to a brand new day filled with unlimited possibilities.  We can be who we have been with all of our worries, baggage and regrets intact or we can decide to enter the day focused on what is good and right in our lives. Nowhere in the year is this choice more conscious than on New Year's Day.  It really is a day like any other but we have all agreed to make believe it is special and because we have all agreed, it is.  And so we make grandiose plans for ourselves for the year to come and hope some of them come to pass.

 But what if, this year we do it differently?  What if this year, instead of mapping out our personal blueprint for the next twelve months, we forget about ourselves?  What if this year, ALL, 100% of our wishes are for the good of others.  What if we wish for the people we love instead of ourselves?  What if we send out wishes for what they want?  What if we wish that they lose dangerous weight or quit a crippling habit or find employment, find God, find happiness, lighten up, learn to forgive, get to travel, regain their health, find patience, eat better, get out of a relationship, get into a relationship, learn to laugh again, appreciate what they already have.  What if this New Year wasn't about us at all but all about them?  What if we just kept on working on our stuff like we have been (and keeping our fingers crossed that we are making progress) and use all of our New Year's wishes for others?

 It's not as big a sacrifice as you would imagine.  There would be no resolutions to keep, no lists of what you will do differently, no reluctant meals or exercises but if you would look around in a little while, you would realize that others really are being affected by your wishes for them, the world will suddenly seem to be getting a little brighter, the people that you wish good for will suddenly feel closer to you, you will suddenly start walking a little lighter.  The difference that you wanted to make in the world will have started.

With these thoughts in mind, I wish you a wonderful New Year filled with happiness and peace of mind and I wish that everyone you love is benefited by your New Year's resolutions.

Love and Blessings, Cindy Carey