December

I truly love this time and these days when everything sort of comes into focus and most people are in great places; happy, fun, and just enjoyable. It is a great time to spend with friends, family and the loved ones that make this day, moment or minute special and lasting. I can say that this "season" as some would refer to it, is one that I look forward to, revel at and truly feel blessed to experience. It is at these times when people's true colors come out and you have to take a step back every now and then and just smile. Smile because at certain times when needed, our world, our country can start to all get on the same page and start to change some real life things. I love to see it come and as it goes I only get ready and excited for the next time it will be here. Every December is a great one. We are blessed people. Revel in it and enjoy every second.
Make life something to live for.

Surprise

As days turn into years. Babble into formation. I can feel the change. I can see the growth before my eyes and behind the scenes these realizations are clearer by the day. This surreal manifestation of life and love, fear and hope, reveals itself in ways never known before. Flesh of my flesh but an entire wavelength of his own. I didn't for see his arrival but how I don't want his departure. I strive for His presence more everyday. A precious gift to mold and shape, a life to grow. Teach not to focus on the war around us but direct his focus above all of that and seek what is always around us and really matters. Seek what is waiting for you to find.

Wilderness of Rocks

To remain in this place for hours and days will change a portion of you by opening up and bringing a refreshed sense to your body and mind. I love to relax, contemplate, and learn on these mountain sides. They are truly a place where God is. Just looking around you understand the beauty behind this place. It is easily forgotten as we navigate the concrete jungle we call home. But when you really take the time to get out here, out somewhere, your very life can begin to change. New ideas and changes in lifestyle, belief, and beauty start to manifest. To stop and just grasp this experience is all you need to do. To just get out in the open.

Focus

There is a lot out there to distract us from the passions and goals that we strive to achieve. The world is full of noise, clutter, and ways of complicating our somewhat simple lives. The goal is to connect with something that inspires you. To set a goal and watch it come to fruition. I recently have taken up "bouldering" or climbing or whatever you would like to label it, that's not important. What is crucial is that this new "hobby" as some would call it, drives me to be a better person, to exercise, eat right, stay in tune with my body so i can excel at this activity. What is in your life that grabs you, stops you, and causes a shift in the way you move throughout your day? What inspires you to be a better person? It can be more than one thing alone, but something causes you to get up each day, grab this world by the horns and take control, or do you just 'get by' do what is needed and drift. There is special things in each of us that cause dramatic shifts in how we function, react, and even live. Find what it is in your life that sparks that drive or seek it out, don't let it fade, grasp it with your entire being. It may be the very thing that helps you rise to where you not only want to be, but need to be.