Letting go  Year 2000

Letting go has been one of the hardest things I have ever had to do,  but judging by my reactions to yet another recent family dilemma  I've realized thankfully that I have at long last  truly succeeded. 

   
"learn to accept the things you cannot change and live your lives around them."
  

I wrote those words myself and lost them some where along the way.  I have never made new years resolutions in the past.  I have always felt that in doing so I was complicating an already complicated life.  I had enough to sort out without making impossible demands on myself, promises that I was sure to break and then feel "guilty" because I did.   However there is a first time for everything. 
    

This year on January 1st, 2000 I made a resolution, seriously for the first time in my life, but I made one,  that was in my power to keep! 
"I will
learn to accept the things I cannot change and live my life around them."

My life has been lived and it has been a good life.  I am satisfied that I have done my best with the conditions I had to work with.  I wish our children the best this life has to offer and sincerely hope they find what they are looking for. 
     
So we began the year 2000 a closer family.   We have a new grandchild and we welcome Aja to this family with open arms.  No matter what happens on this earth, no matter how deep we may sink into poverty there is no reason on God's great earth that we ever have to lack in love, understanding or respect for our fellow human beings. 
   
Now it is our time to drop the ties and soar through the rest of our journey here on earth together. Accepting the things we cannot change and living our lives without them.   A time for us to enjoy, a time to find peace and a time to find the Denis and Rachel, side of us that has been taking second place for so long we almost lost it.  

      
The year two thousand will be a good year,  I can tell that already! 

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