Farewell Old Time, Welcome New Hope..
Happy New Year for 2012!
I really have a rough year previously.
But what more can you expect from a "doomsday" year like 2012?
Some skeptics say this year would be end of the world.
If you ask me, it's the same scenario year after year - people expect good things to come, but bad things always come unexpectedly.
The only logical thing to reason to think about this, is only one word - HOPE.
No matter how positive you may think, this world has no chance to be a better a place.
but it's always people who believe in that 'HOPE' that gives meaning to our life - that this world will be a special place, somewhere, somehow.
A good illustration is a "worn out" shoes. Nobody wants worn out shoes. Who wouldn't?
it looks bad on the outside, and looks more bad in the inside.
If you ask people what to do with that shoe, they will tell you to throw it away!
but for a person who has worn out that shoe, he never realizes how important that shoe is to him that goes with him all the directions of his journey.. his adventures, his life, his travels..
That is what I learned from this year...
A worn out shoe never boasts of his travels, but is always proud that he has taken that journey.
This year - I lost opportunities.
I lost some faith.
I lost amounts of money.
I lost some friends.
I lost things.
worst of all, I lost a life.
yes, this cycle would not stop.
But HOPE will always come.
Looking at the other side of the glass - it's the journey that makes it worthwhile, not the pain.
God has never allowed a problem into someone's life without knowing how to resolve it.
Because God never invented HOPE, God made it.
That's why shoes are never made to not to be worn out.
It's suppose to be worn out, because of the journey it took - be it bad or good.
And the person who worn out this shoe will always remember, where this shoes had lead him.
God, Thanks for the Journey . It was all worthwhile. Painful, yes.
But knowing there is HOPE for every obstacle on the next chapter of life, it makes you take one more step forward - to infinity and beyond.
Let us take that bold step of moving forward.
having that armor of hope and faith within us -
willing to accept whatever challenges we face in the coming year.
HOPE is the thin red line between the doomsday sayers and the Positive Thinkers.
We may think that the world would come to an end.
But we may also HOPE that there would be a new beginning after that end.
HAPPY NEW YEAR everyone!
posted by dcbato @ 12:29 PM
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