As The Snow Falls

This year has come and gone and another year is almost here.

Here in Northern Illinois, we have had our first significant snow fall of about two inches and another three is on the way. My husband has retrieved the snow shovel from our garage and has started shoveling before all five inches fall on the driveway and sidewalks in front of our home.

I can’t help but to think; didn’t we just do this? What happen to the last eleven months?

We have decorated our Christmas tree in preparation for another Christmas. I look back over the year and reminisce of the past. The good days and the bad, the good decisions we made, and the bad decisions we look forward in the future to correct. I can’t help but to think what might lay ahead in 2009. I can’t help but to think what unresolved problems we will bring into the coming year. Will we make better choices regarding our finances, health, family affairs, friendships, education…..? What will we be faced with, and how will we handle difficult decisions that lay ahead?

For now, all I can do is concentrate on the now, and not worry about tomorrow. For tomorrow is not promised to any of us, but today is. So, on this cold Sunday night, I will choose to prepare for tomorrow but live, love and laugh for today.