New Year's Day 2019

Happy New Year! Happy New Beginning!
Today, the year is a newborn.
How will we choose to dress it, to feed it, to teach it, to learn from it?

To everything there is a season,
and a time to every purpose under heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die.
- Ecclesiastes 3:1

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.
- William Arthur Ward

Don't Wait!
Start on your dreams, your impulses,
your longings, your special occasions today.
Because this is your moment.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Further reading: The First Day

New Years Resolutions

Old Beginnings versus NEW beginnings

A Better Plan 

Renewal and Rebirth - The Great Cycle
      

New Years 2018

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.
- William Arthur Ward

Happy New Year! Happy New Beginning!

Today, the year is a newborn.
How will we choose to dress it, to feed it, to teach it, to learn from it?

To everything there is a season,
and a time to every purpose under heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die.
- Ecclesiastes 3:1

Don't Wait!
Start on your dreams, your impulses,
your longings, your special occasions today.
Because this is your moment.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Further reading: New Years Resolutions

The First Day

Old Beginnings versus NEW beginnings

Renewal and Rebirth - The Great Cycle

A Better Plan
      

Happy New Year 2015

Happy New Year! Happy New Beginning!

Today, the year is a newborn.
How will we choose to dress it, to feed it, to teach it, to learn from it?

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.
- William Arthur Ward

Don't Wait!
Start on your dreams, your impulses,
your longings, your special occasions today.
Because this is your moment.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

To everything there is a season,
and a time to every purpose under heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die.
- Ecclesiastes 3:1

Further reading: The First Day

Renewal and Rebirth - The Great Cycle

New Years Resolutions

Old Beginnings versus NEW beginnings

A Better Plan

This Day

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Do not say, "It is morning,"
and dismiss it with a name of yesterday.
See it for the first time
as a newborn child that has no name.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Every day brings new choices.
- Martha Beck

Why live?
Adding one to my count of days, or postponing
a feared death by another day do not inspire me.
I live to experience something new each day -
to learn something new, meet a new friend,
bring joy into someone's life,
feel the wind newly on my skin,
touch a new fear, a new anger,
and with focused intent and good fortune,
find an ample measure of my own joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Hope for the Future

Actions Speak Louder Than Words

What Is Life All About?

 I Can Endure

Happy Monday

If in our daily life we can smile,
if we can be peaceful and happy,
not only we, but everyone will profit from it.
This is the most basic kind of peace work.
- Thich Nhat Hanh

Try to make at least one person happy every day.
If you cannot do a kind deed, speak a kind word.
If you cannot speak a kind word, think a kind thought.
Count up, if you can, the treasure of happiness
that you would dispense in a week, in a year, in a lifetime!
- Lawrence G. Lovasik

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition,
is not only a waste of energy
but the worst habit you could possibly have.
- Dale Carnegie

Today is a perfect day to be happy.
Every day is a perfect day to be happy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Smile, and have a Good Morning

Tips for Saving Money while Living Well

Appreciate the Unexpected

I hope you dance

When you get the choice to sit it out or dance, I hope you dance.
- Lee Ann Womack (Watch the I Hope You Dance video)

Today is your day to dance lightly with life.
Sing wild songs of adventure.
Invite rainbows & butterflies out to play.
Soar your spirit and unfurl your joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A few days ago, I asked you to send in your Happy Day quotes. I have put a few of them on a Happy Day Quotes page.

Happy Day Quotes

Today is a happy day because I say it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

When I began preparing today's message, I intended to include one or two Happy Day quotes, but I couldn't find any good ones. I'm contemplating the lack of Happy Day quotes, and I see a need to be filled. If you know of a great Happy Day quote, or want to write one, please let me know.

Any day can be a Happy Day simply because I declare it to be a a happy day. I don't need a reason for today to be a Happy Day, but here are a few things that make it easier for me to say "Happy Day!"

A Happy Day is a day when I go for a walk.

A Happy Day is a day when I breathe deeply and consciously.

A Happy Day is a day when I express gratitude for all of Life.

How many ways can you complete the sentence, "A Happy Day is a day when I _____."