When You Can't Move Forward Without First Saying Good-bye

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Gracious. Who pressed Life's fast-forward button?   

Anyway, before I move on, please read this:

Where was I these past weeks? Working on the first part. The acceptance stuff. (I also twisted my ankle, which I'll skip, lest my blog become even more Old Lady Debra's Woes-ish.)

Last time I mentioned taking weeks off to heal from 2024. But you know? It turned into more.

It became a time for this middle-sixties lady (who's got a birthday on Sunday, some cabin fever and feels like she's stepped into Elderly Land) to say good-bye to her younger self.

Good-bye to walking quickly. 

To vacuuming, then dusting, washing dishes, then laundry; all in a half hour.

To driving around, running errands, then returning to paint a bedroom.

To friends who vanished and those who departed this Life.

To faraway vacations, real coffee and sugar-infused desserts.

To buying one more house, a blank canvas, upon which to splash around my creativity.

To released dreams not sampled for their validity.

And yet? God and His blessed sense of balance! He sprinkled down vital hello's, as well.

Hello to yet-undiscovered books I'll read and love. To as-of-now unwritten movies and tv series, also.

To wonderful friends I've, as of today, not yet met.

To people I'll help and encourage.

To creative ideas, seeds I'll plant and projects I will imagine. To words I'll someday write.

To lovely things I'll learn, see, experience and miracles God will do in this Earth. To healthy habits I'll form.

To new dreams some year to be born.

And to Heaven. Someday there will be a glorious Heaven.

So what I'm thinking matters much? That I release the good-bye's. Let them fade, not crowd my head, so that I'll gain arm-spreading room in which to skip and travel forward--

-- while rejoicing. Weightless.

Acceptance is not an admittance of defeat, but rather, an acknowledgement that God's created a new thing for us in the road ahead.

(And I'm thinking this post may be one only those who have 'been there' will understand.)

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This felt like a present from God:  Lincoln Highway Road Trip Part 1. (I'd hoped for a video like this at least 4 years.) And here is Part 2.

Anyone else feeling like they've complained too much lately? This may help: Quit Yer Bellyachin'.  シ

Want a Nancy Meyers Home?

And this was beyond awesome.

And did I already recommend this movie? Fly Me To The Moon. (Some language, not a lot.)

“Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert."   from Isaiah 43

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Please remember: My posts are always about more than they appear to be. 

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 "For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you, but if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses." ... Matthew 6:14,15