Monday, 9 January 2012 5:28:00 pm

This coming year, I hope you find courage. Courage to begin again and take good risks; courage to find yourself and be somebody. I hope your faith is big enough to guide you through and if it isn’t, I hope you cultivate it until it grows into a garden of good things. Life isn’t going to get any easier but I hope you hold on. If there’s anything I learned from 2011, it’s that even though the odds are against you, it does get better.

I hope, with all my heart, that you never settle. It doesn’t matter what aspect of life you decide to apply this to — you are too good to content yourself with something less than great. I hope you find your passion and have plenty of good, ridiculous fun. I hope you learn to forgive yourself this year because forgiveness is always succeeded by love. Speaking of love, I hope you fall in love. Real, hard, astounding love. I hope you open your heart and go beyond yourself. I hope you empty yourself for the sake of something bigger. Yes, if I should hope for anything for you this 2012, it’s that you will always find yourself in the middle of a great love story, whether with someone or by yourself. I hope you will see the many ways in which love abounds — in God and people and, sometimes, even in a wonderful piece of fiction.

I hope you discover the beauty of simple things and how they stand as lifesavers when the big things fall apart. I hope you find yourself face-to-face with a problem so seemingly impossible you will be forced to find a strength within you that you never even knew existed. And, with all I have, I hope you win. I hope you learn to be a hero. I hope you get to share an amazing adventure with people who are nothing less than wonderful. I hope you find all kinds of opportunities to show kindness to a hurting and broken world – even if it costs you. I hope wherever you are, hope grows. I hope you get to travel. I hope your horizons expand beyond all your expectations, I hope that you tremble with vulnerable love but above all, I hope you witness a miracle.

 

And, as 2012 comes to a dazzling end, I hope you realize what your heart has hardly begun to believe:  that the miracle is you.

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This coming year, I hope you find courage. Courage to begin again and take good risks; courage to find yourself and be somebody. I hope your faith is big enough to guide you through and if it isn’t, I hope you cultivate it until it grows into a garden of good things. Life isn’t going to get any easier but I hope you hold on. If there’s anything I learned from 2011, it’s that even though the odds are against you, it does get better.

I hope, with all my heart, that you never settle. It doesn’t matter what aspect of life you decide to apply this to — you are too good to content yourself with something less than great. I hope you find your passion and have plenty of good, ridiculous fun. I hope you learn to forgive yourself this year because forgiveness is always succeeded by love. Speaking of love, I hope you fall in love. Real, hard, astounding love. I hope you open your heart and go beyond yourself. I hope you empty yourself for the sake of something bigger. Yes, if I should hope for anything for you this 2012, it’s that you will always find yourself in the middle of a great love story, whether with someone or by yourself. I hope you will see the many ways in which love abounds — in God and people and, sometimes, even in a wonderful piece of fiction.

I hope you discover the beauty of simple things and how they stand as lifesavers when the big things fall apart. I hope you find yourself face-to-face with a problem so seemingly impossible you will be forced to find a strength within you that you never even knew existed. And, with all I have, I hope you win. I hope you learn to be a hero. I hope you get to share an amazing adventure with people who are nothing less than wonderful. I hope you find all kinds of opportunities to show kindness to a hurting and broken world – even if it costs you. I hope wherever you are, hope grows. I hope you get to travel. I hope your horizons expand beyond all your expectations, I hope that you tremble with vulnerable love but above all, I hope you witness a miracle.

 

And, as 2012 comes to a dazzling end, I hope you realize what your heart has hardly begun to believe:  that the miracle is you.

Labels: faith, reposts