Surviving 2010? Prognosis Good!

Ah! Bliss! We’ve made it another year!

Perhaps you laugh at reading that. Quite honestly I laughed in writing it. But what better way to describe 2009 than a year of hanging on…for dear life sometimes…to my Father God, with eyes tightly closed.

Survival is a funny topic for a new year when so many goals out there look like plans to THRIVE. But quite honestly, sometimes all you can do is survive. And when you’ve got a family as…well…complex….as mine, perhaps you can understand why.

Oh, I know what I’m talking about. In my household alone we’ve got mental illness ranging from depression to anxiety to a short stop in the world of bi-polar. There are two children (we know of) on the autism spectrum and a little dyslexia on the youngest for good measure. Add to that some health complications: Fibromyalgia (mine) and diabetes (his) you've got more on your plate than you know what to do with.

Then add to that the usual bits and dabs into financial trouble (don’t we all have a touch of that right now) and there just plain not being ENOUGH hours in the day…oy, we might as well go back to bed and stay there until next year, hoping that it’s all going to go away somehow.

OK that’s not going to work. And besides, I’m a much more optimistic person than that.

After all, put of surviving is the realization that we are actually thriving simply because we're doing it. It just doesn’t look like everybody else’s definition of the word.

So this year is going to be good. I know that because God is still on his throne in heaven…and is also right here with me and you and everyone else. He’s got our backs…and a whole lot more besides.

Here’s to a Happy New Year…whatever it brings.

Question: What makes you optimistic about the New Year?