My Wish For 2012

“Another fresh new year is here . . .
Another year to live!
To banish worry, doubt, and fear,
To love and laugh and give!

This bright new year is given me
To live each day with zest . . .
To daily grow and try to be
My highest and my best!

I have the opportunity
Once more to right some wrongs,
To pray for peace, to plant a tree,
And sing more joyful songs!” –William Arther Ward

Happy New Year to you all!  I really love this poem and I shared it with you on my Facebook page for those of you who may have already see it there!  The New Year is a chance to wipe the slate clean and start a new!  So many things occur during the course of the year, and some of them are memorable and positive, and others are a bit less positive and are better forgotten, yet hopefully after having gleaned some lessons from the experience.

My prayer for this New Year is that we can begin in earnest to solve the problems that have surfaced from mismanagement of finances without trying to find a reason to go to war in order to divert everyone’s attention from the problems at home.  That is an old trick, usually works for a few months, but then when the reality comes around that all that we have “solved”  is that we have maintained some people in office, reduced the world’s population and kept people working who support the department of defense.

There as so very many things at home to keep us busy ad-millennium without having to meddle in the affairs of other countries which instead could greatly benefit the people of our own nation.  So My vote, if I have one, would be to move towards greater peace and attempt to be a good example of a real democratic country, strengthening the justice system to penalize those who are actually responsible for the economical woes. That would be the “tree” that I would like to plant so that then we can all go on singing some joyful songs!

Happy New Year and may God bless!