HI CAT!
Blessings and Happy New Year! Got a great feeling about the upcoming year!
I have become great friends with a female crew member on OLTL(we've been
great friends several years) and she and I spent a great "girls" weekend last
May and talked and talked about believing in reaching for what you want and
believing it will happen.
WHEN WE ARE READY TO REACH OUT AND ACCEPT IT!
It does come to us.
I think we block our own blessings with our negativity and
fear of change and unbelief(all that stuff we need to throw out with 2008!).

Anyway, I wanted to make a major change in my life in where I lived, and
had hesitated, blah, blah,----WHEN I said, "I'm ready to do this, and I'm going
to do this!", all I can say is it was like the Gates of Heaven opened.
The place
opened up, the money became available, the help became available to move,
there were miracles after miracles, and if I ever needed a reminder of what a
GREAT GOD we serve, I got it. Is everything always perfect?No.
I lost my oldest
son 5 years ago to a drunk driver at age 30--a brilliant and loving writer and poet.

Yet it was through his death and certain wonderful people that I've met many other
wonderful people who have helped me find better directions for my life and believe
it could happen. Do I wish he were here. Of course.
But someday I will know why
God chose to take him so early.
But God has given me many blessings in the form
of family and real friends-the kind you can count on! One last thing.
I hate the
commercialization of Christmas, but love the family thing.
This year my middle son
and his wife and 2 kids(ages 4 & 2, who OWN ME) had to remain in Chicago.
I have
another son here who is single and 28 and a doll.
We don't get a lot of time together,
but of course we would spend Christmas together--just the two of us.
I cried and
had a pity party that it only be us two!! GUESS WHAT! One of my best Christmas's
EVER!! This 28 year old young man walks into my house with a velvet box, and
says "Open it, mom". It was a string of real pearls. I was a single mom for yrs.
I
said "I've never owned anything so nice", and his response was"I want you to have
nice things! Then he took me to dinner, we had a great time catching up, went to
a cool movie, had lots of laughs, and he took me home around 8 and I loaded him
up with cookies and cake I had baked just for him, and off he went to see a
young lady, or so I heard!! God's Blessings and Lessons come in many ways!!
Your friend, Kathy on West Coast(somewhere!)
 

You are so on target with this message my dear friend. I believe in all that you say. Being someone whom in the past year has struggled with many demons, have come out to the light that shines on for us all. You just have to find it. Some people will allow themselves to be kept down and that does no good for the soul. It is when you continue to move forward and put aside the negativity and see that there is a reason for everything that you begin to not only heal within but ti flourish as well despite what may be going on around you.


There is a light at the end of the tunnel! Some choose to see it and reach for it while there are those who can't mustard the strength to reach for it. I say to everyone reach out to it and it shall be yours.


I have gone through alot this year (see my blogs) and although at times the darkness wanted to shadow over me, it is my faith in God above whom leads me on the journey that I take. The key is to not stay in the darkness but continue to the light for it shines and radiates for us all. We just need to find it within everything that we do so that we don't become prey and continue to fall but pick ourselves up and move forward as I have done.


I Thank you for the beauty you show and send to others.

 

Excellent article, Cat! I understand the point your brother was making though with just simply being prepared to defend yourself.


Happy New Year to you!

Love! Bill
 

Happy New Year to you!

Thank you so very much for writing and sharing this today, it was exactly what I needed at exactly the right moment. All of us need to be reminded of the wisdom you wrote of and today I am so grateful for the reminder to Be the Light.


Thank you so much.

 

You are always such an inspiration. Thank you so much. Happy New Year! I hope it is a wonderful one for you.

 

i don't know, Cat, maybe it is a guy thing, but having a sword in reserve is not so bad. ...coleman
 

Y'know what, Cat? You are absolutely right on the mark here! When I was growing up, we trusted our neighbors to look out for us. We took care of our loved ones, which included our neighbors during difficult times. That's how we shared the light with others. In today's generation, we've lost our way because the light has been blown out by frivolous lawsuits, gang shootings over territories, etc.


Thank you for sharing your beautiful thoughts on this issue. God bless you, and Happy New Year to you and yours! Your friend, Diane, from San Antonio, TX.

 

What a perfect blog to kickstart the new year! Your words are always so inspiring, Cat - and I just wanted to say thank you for that.
:) Here's to a happy, healthy, safe, absolutely FABULOUS 2009!
 

...Wise and beautiful thoughts from both you and your brother! Thanks, darling lady!