This time of the year brings many joys and sadness.  Remembering loses from our past sometimes makes us melancholy.  We are here now with all our past memories and dreams for the future.  These emotions are woven into who we’ve become but they are not our essence.  Our reality is this moment in time.

Look around.  Feel the “now.”  Think about all the wonderful blessings.  Enjoy the beauty in nature.  The sky can look more beautiful than a great work of art worth millions of dollars. The scene is free.  Just look up and it’s yours.

Look in the faces of your loved ones as well as those we come in contact with and feel the wonder of all we are and can be.

Enjoy a little silence to reflect on the abundance which is ours.  Our Earth is bountiful,  providing beauty, shelter, warmth, food and the very air we breathe.

Be grateful.  Be thankful.  Look forward to wonderful possibilities with the knowledge of all we have now.