a Toast, to 2012...

It is with both sadness and joy that I say 

adios and arrivederci to 2011...

Many wonderful things happened this year, 

many dreams came true and goals were reached.

But along with the sunshine comes rain, 

and many unhappy events and situations visited me, as well.

I can't go back, not to those glorious moments of our show on the farm,

to days with our family gathered and having fun there,

to clear star-filled skies I gazed at each night,

or to the wide-open future we saw before us each day....

until it wasn't so very wide-open anymore.

I don't want to go back.

I want to go forward, 

into the glorious moments in my future that haven't yet happened.

I know they are there, waiting for me,

I just need to let go of the past so I can move forward.

So my word on this last day of 2011 is

RELEASE.

I have been thinking of my word for 2012,

and there have been a few in consideration:

Accept / Acceptance

Restore /Restoration

Receive

I'm not really sure which one it is to be...

but it's not 2012 yet. ;0)

What's your word for the coming year?

Happy New Year, friends...

may 2012 bring you more than you can dream of

(in a good way!)

and bless you abundantly.