Friday: 27Dec13--for a good reason, postponing talking about retirement!
Hey! Hello!! Good morning!!!
At the end of yesterday's post, I mentioned talking today about retirement. That I will be putting off until Monday, at the latest. Not retirement. Just talking about it. lol
What I do want to talk about today is like the metaphor happening outside. It's back to really stormy. Awhile ago we saw the most spectacular double rainbow of our lives. Brilliant. That is creation. Brilliant, from the smallest microcosm that takes a high powered microscope to see...to the stars, so far out there in the night sky that it takes a high powered telescope to see.
Such are are own lives. Brilliant in detail, scope, and influence. That's you. That's me. No matter the highs, lows or inbetweens of our lives.
Last year about this time I made a decision about the year to come that I had not made before. Yesterday I finalized another decision about the year ahead of us. If you have followed my personal blog, then you've experienced some of last year's decision. 2014s decision, you will have to wait to find out. :-)
Last year's decision about 2013?
To make a blog post about every day of my life for one year. Why? Well, why not. Some days I fell behind then jammed to catch up. Some days/weeks there was a regular rythm to that. Most days pics were used that I took with my iPhone. A couple of them are even fairly decent. Some days I had to borrow pictures that others took.
Some days, what was taking place within me, and/or my dealings with others was wAy too personal to share here. That, I trust, you understand. Other days it was a delight to share from the mundane (through very rarely is there a mundane day in my life...) to the profound. At least profound to me. Maybe not to you. lol
Now four days from the end of living out this year's decision, I've almost completed that odd, challenging, life-expanding decision of a year ago. Even when on vacation.
No day has been depleted because of this personal exercise, in making a decision. Most postings have brought me to pause, ponder and purposefully consider what has taken place within each day. Most pictures and a lot of the verbage has seemed to not just be reporting, put almost praying, as I've recalled, and reread each post from the whole year this week.
Some days I've been a champ. Some days a total dunce.
Some moments have found me soaring. Others almost crashing, but not quite.
I've experienced both the deepest of joy and sadness. Tears have flowed both from laughing too hard and hurting too much. A few times I ate too much, even poorly, but have maintained keeping off the 70 pounds that disappeared several years ago in response to that year's big decision.
I have loved family and friends well in a variety of ways, and again, so poorly, some moments, it's reeked, as in stunk bad. Grace has shown up in some moments about the size of a raindrop, and other moments has poured down so strongly as to almost take my breath away. Fear has gripped me a few times, but, thank God, has not lasted long.
Some new people I've met, even on this trip here, have shown up to become new friends. Sincerely crazy/wonderful how our God brings new relationships into existence. Some of these good souls may be there only for the meaning-filled moment. Others, I'm confident, will join our fascinating list of life-long friends. That we have even met the people we have this year is stunning. This has been a year of some deep, special new beginnings.
It's also been a year some relationships have faded, disappeared, ended. Ugh. That has not felt good. In a few cases, that has not even been right, on their part, or mine.
As with all friendships, long lived or short, they need to be held with open hands and open hearts. Blessing upon blessing needs to be poured all over the thoughts of those good souls. Truly. To hold anything, even a little bit, over another only destroys the one doing the holding. I prefer to live with open heart and open hands with cherished friendships, brief or long-term.
There are still four days left in this yeal long decision being accomplished. I'm both excited, and just a bit intimidated (which is good for me, in this case...) at what I'll tackle for next year. This much I can tell you, there will not be a daily report. lol How often? Remains to be figured out. But it will happen.
For this day, I need to get packing, literally and figuratively. We are back to blazing sun here. Sitting on the "balcony office" getting this ready to send to you, I've watched the sellar rainbow in the picture below totally fade. Rain has fallen so hard you could not see the other side of the bay. Rainbows of all sizes and heights have come and gone in abundance.
People on the next balcony were heard complaing about how cold it was. Checking my iPhone for Kihei weather it's 75 degrees. Supposed to be 84 by noon. That means in 11 hours we'll be on a plane headed directly for Denver.
This is a wAy longer post than I ever expected to do on this day. My apologies. But somehow the spectacular beauty of this raindbow you see below uncorked my wanting to let you know why I've posted every day this year. If that decision had not been made, you would be missing the glory of this pic.
If I understand anything about our God's creation at all, you, yup!, yOu, are even more glorious and glory-filled than what you see below. Own that. It's profoundly true. All of creation reflects God's image, including you...........! Let's commit to chosing to do that wisely and well in the days to come.
And now, if you'll excuse me, I've got to go wash the sand off our sandals in which we've walked the beach. What memories from this year. What memories are waiting for you, and us, me in 2014?
Live hoping for blessing. Live being a blessing. Live blessed.

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