Thankful for a year of milestones, adversity, and achievements. Perspective on steroids. My 2013 brought a few big birthdays (50, 21, 18), a huge anniversary (25), a recovery short of miraculous (Mom’s bounce back to health), and…..a little literary dream I had come true — the paperback.
In reflection, do I have much for which to be thankful? Well, that I am here to tell the story, for starters. That I have a loving and supportive family who are part of it, absolutely. That I have real friends and friends who keep me real, certainly.
And with that, I’d like to say a big THANK YOU to you loyal readers of Rx for the Soul. I appreciate your support and look forward to sharing more thoughts in 2014. As I leave you with my favorite scripture, here’s to a new year full of faith, hope, and love:
If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.
4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. 12 For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
~ 1 Corinthians 13:1-13 
Connie:
Thank YOU for a year of sharing your feelings, emotions, photos, and wise words to say the least. You are a gifted and talented writer, and most importantly, a beautiful soul. Here’s to you and yours and may inspiration and divine guidance continue to flow as we benefit from your medicine to our souls!
Love, A
Thank you, Aileen , for your words….and friendship.
Amiga, Aileen put it beautifully, “we benefit from your medicine to our souls.” I love this blog! And you and your lovely familia. You made me think of my Mom and Abuela with “And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
~ 1 Corinthians 13:1-13″ Wishing you the merriest of Christmas and all things good in 2014! I owe you guys a batch or two of brownies …
Thank you Barbie for your continued support, for the laughs, and the love. The best to you always my friend.
I couldn’t agree more…your “meds” strengthen our spiritual health as well as our appreciation of all that we have and are able to share with others…and love is right there at the top of the list! Happy New Year my friend…Boop
Thank you Boop! It was great chatting with you the other day. Best wishes to you and yours. Lot of love.