To Those Who Have Followed my Ramblings;

I received a greeting by a Facebook friend along with a request…”Happy New Year Bob; continue to challenge everyone in 2019!”

This short and meaningful note will be a personal challenge as my life observations and challenges are communicated in my Ramblings. These Ramblings over the years are not to tell anyone what to do, or how to think, instead to write about personal thoughts prompted by life experiences, observations and reading that hopefully are worthy of consideration, thought and discussion by others, my followers. Who knows, maybe even a bit of change!

I will take this challenge by my FB friend, Diane, someone I have never met, yet have gained enormous respect over the years, as a challenge that requires personal intentional living, personal thought, consideration, and possible change, not only by me but just maybe by some of those who follow these random Ramblings.

I am painfully aware that change is one of the most difficult, not impossible tasks in life, however taking baby steps and support by others around us can make this very difficult action possible.

As I reflect on this past Christmas Season, I find it comforting that The Christmas Season , for me, is one of deep emotions, reflecting on past great memories, feeling blessed with all that I have been given. I shed some tears and embrace the moments of the past, not to live in the past, but to honor the past. I feel honor and appreciation for the gained knowledge from the past as I have found to do so is critical to a healthy emotional life going forward.

The Christmas and New Year Holiday is also a time to regroup and make 2019 a better year than 2018 on a few specific aspects of life, not a flurry of endless New Year’s Resolution Lists that seldom are looked at again and seldom acted upon.

For me, the season is symbolic with the birth of Baby Jesus. Not only was Jesus born to change the landscape of history and the lives of the world, it is also a time for each of us to symbolically be re-born as to our future and the gifts we have to give to those around us, by doing so, we are giving ourselves a gift of joy, contentment and absolute honor of our past.

May everyone have a 2019 that is memorable and filled with JOY.

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