Where are my manners? Happy New
Year people!!! It may be two weeks late; but it’s still a new year. I hope the
year has been good to you so far. Now, back to what I was saying. Ladies and
gentlemen, that was the message I got from my one and only SB, a few days into
the New Year. Now, you should have seen the excitement on my face as I read
that message, the feeling in my stomach; like a thousand butterflies were trying
to break free or chasing each other. Well, maybe it was because I was anxious of
my exams which were just about to start. Nonetheless, I was excited. Why? You may ask. Who does not receive a text
from their loved one in the New Year? What is so exciting about a text? You may
ask. Well, hold your horses. Afew days before that, I was
setting my guiding verse for myself, and guess what, it was 2nd
Corinthians 5: 17-19;
“17 Wherefore if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature:
the old things are passed away; behold, they are become new.18 But
all things are of God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ, and gave
unto us the ministry of reconciliation; 19 to wit, that God was in
Christ reconciling the world unto himself, not reckoning unto them their
trespasses, and having committed unto us the word of reconciliation.”
Great! How exactly does that
concern me (reader)? You may ask. Well, friends and foes, you may join me is
making 2015 a year of new possibilities and new lives, new you, new me. There
is something that comes with a new year. That is why we all wait eagerly for
it; we don’t want to sleep on the eve of the New Year; because we wait to see
the New Year, to feel new, to experience the year that you have never
experienced before.
As this New Year begins, I
purpose to have a new perspective of life. This is my resolution (yeah, I
admit, I have resolutions). Let’s make this year a year that we make new
achievements, break or make new records (spiritual, academic, social, physical,
name it), a year to get over that ex that you have been struggling to forget;
and find new love, new hope, move from that job that has been making you have
ulcers; and find a better and new job, get rid of that habit that you have been
trying to end, to let go of friends that have been pulling you back; and make
new ones, make new discoveries about
your loved ones, new ways to love them, healing from that loss of a loved one
and starting a new life, new you, new me, new hope, new levels. (okay, now I
start sound like some overseas pastor I hear preaching in one of the buildings
in town as I head home at school at 8 pm. Okay, he is either from overseas or
Kikuyu; you know, Kikuyus imitate anything and everything that gives them an
edge or vantage view by the public)
“Year right, so much hype you
have, wait for mid year; not even then, wait for Feb. and see if you will be
dancing to the same tune” I hear some of you say. But you know what? It all
starts with the mind. If you tell your mind that you cannot do it; you cannot
get over him, you cannot change, you cannot start afresh, you cannot let go,
you will dwell in the past; trust me, you will never move forward.
A great and wise woman once said
“you determine the elements of your life. You decide what you will or will not
do, whether you will or will not change, whether you will grow or not. You also
decide whether to be a mushroom that appears for a night and shrivels away at
the first hunt of wind or heat or an oak tree, lasting and becoming stronger
each passing day”.
This is my challenge to you this
year. Let’s seek to have new possibilities; new lives, new you, new me. If you
do it with a friend or loved one; the better. You will encourage each other and
hold each other accountable when you feel like giving up. Let’s do this people,
and toast to the New Year like my dear friend says here.
Happy New Year 2015 people!! Take
up the challenge!
@deekareithi
@deekareithi
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