Happy New Year 2009

Here it is New Years Day, January 1 2009. A brand new year. I am excited for '09 to reveal to us what God has had planned for us, all of us. I know it will be a year of big change. A year of rejoicing in our family and friends and drawing ever closer to those we love and cherish. Our life is purely about relationships and memories. That folks, is all we have, and it is all we will hold on to when those we love are not around anymore. Our relationships is key to who we are and what we are. Our #1 relationship, the one that will take us through eternity is the one relationship I pray you all have. That ONE relationship is the one we need to have with our Savior Jesus. He is our one true friend, one that will never leave you or forsake you. He will never leave you! Can you even wrap your brain around that one. Never, meaning never, infinite, never. In our brains we think of Never as being a really long time. It's not, it is forever. He is a friend to us, as we learn in the scriptures. In sign language the word FRIEND is expressed by interlocking the index finger and thumbs of both hands through each other to represent what appears to be links of a chain. Connected, locked together. What a perfect visual. I pray now that you will lock yourselves to Jesus and to your other true friends this year. Don't take your friends and family for granted in '09, but truly love on one another and spend time together. Enjoy and respect each other, appreciate each other and look at one another as being a wonderful gift from God to each other. I pray that this will be the year that you will decide for yourself to live life to the fullest and to live it with no regrets. We have done just that to end 2008 and have every intention of living it out in 2009. Please enjoy the pictures I post of our end to 2008. It was wonderful!!!