A book I recently read over the holidays written by Richard Paul Evans. Its a wonderful book, a heartwarming story, one that will more than likely make you cry. I did.
When you read a good book hopefully you come away with some little nugget of wisdom that you carry with you forever. Reading The Gift, I came away with several. I want to share with you a paragraph from the end of the book. I wont give the story away!
"We all have need of healing. And while our world spends billions of dollars each year on pills, potions, and procedures it is all a shadow of what we need most. What good is a life prolonged if it only extends the season of cowardice and sin? What good is a new heart if it's only to be filled with hate, or regret, - or new eyes, if all they can see is criticism and intolerance? Perhaps the artificial heart is the perfect metaphor of our age."
I dont know about you but that really spoke to me. Everyone has a different opinion of our health care system, what is broken, how we should fix it, etc.. Maybe we should all stop and take a few minutes at the beginnng of this new year and think about what's really broken, in each one of us. At the risk of getting weepy on you (which is completely unlike me : ) ) I'd like to pose this question to each and every person that reads this blog.
Its a brand new year and we all have the opportunity for a fresh start. Imagine if you will if we started the year with an attitude of gratefullness for what we do have instead of resentment for what we dont have. What if we forgave that person that wronged us instead of looking for ways to seek revenge? What if we looked for one small thing to do each day to help someone else? Just imagine what this could / would do to lift our spirits!! A better attitude, less stress, a feeling of being useful instead of useless. Probably would save billions in health care costs and the world would be a better place!
So that's my New Years blog.. my challenge to all that read this. Lets make this a year of forgiveness, gratefulness, and prosperity! Oh, and my New Year's resolution... to blog more often so Rodger, my PR guru will be filled with gratefulness towards me : )
