BEGIN WITH A NEW YEAR

A Journey
Dec.29,2007

A Journey Through Cancer
By Muffet Dolar Villegas

Begin with a New Year

The air is like a butterfly
With frail blue wings.
The happy earth looks at the sky
And sings
- Joyce Kilmer

The year 2007 has finally ended with millions of footprints left in the sand. Some were blown away by the wind or washed away along the shores, but there were those which will become part of the fabric of our existence forever, if we let them.
According to an Arabian proverb, “Four things come not back- the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life and the neglected opportunity.”
There were words we have spoken, which may have created enmity between our closest friends. Some arrows may have hit the mark so well, that that the wound takes time to heal. We must have erected walls, that as time went by they have toughened enough to drive away love and affection. The doors may have opened, but we refused to enter. All these became part of us, and year after year, the burden is mounting, until we feel that we can’t go on.
Yet everyday, we are reminded that the sun rises, and the sun sets. The night becomes a long journey for those of us who didn’t fare well during the day. But every morning, God invites us to begin a new day, a better one than yesterday. We can cast away all our cares and worries because his yoke is easy and his burden is light.
Every New Year, can be a newly primed canvas that we can paint on. Our palette of colors is limited only by our choices.
WE WISH YOU A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR!