Just A Thought ~ NEW YEAR, NEW DAY, NEW MOMENT

We enter a New Year as upon uncharted territory, which, of course, it is, as no-one's been here before. But isn't this so with every day of our lives ~ in fact, with every moment? When we awake in the morning, we cannot possibly know what awaits us in the day ahead, and this is why we need to be flexible, so that if the plans we make don't work out ~ as often happens ~ we can switch to something else without too much trouble. If we are not flexible, if we are too attached to our plans and ideas, if we live our lives like a train running along its tracks, we will miss so much along the way.

We don't need to be clairvoyant to know that there will be hardships ahead, because life doesn't build super-highways for us to travel smoothly on. But there will also be good things ~ and successes ~ that we don't expect; these are treats along the way for us to enjoy and derive courage from.