The Hardest Thing To Handle....
Is the Attention You Will Get!!!

As we wind down the year of 2002, there is a time for reflection....both good and bad. The memories of the year rush about in my head and heart!
I am filled with awe at how much ’living’ can be packed into a year....and how quickly that year can come and go....
In a sense, I’m still on hold for the computer glitches of the year 2000!!!
It never happened......but it seemed like yesterday.

Now we are approaching the beginning of a completely New Year!
2003.....is for me!!!
I truly believe.....that the year.....2003 will be a year by which....
.......Dreams Come True.....for a lot of people!
Over the last year, I have repeatedly heard from the lives of many of my family and friends....certain ’Dreams’ that have been reached for.....prayed for....worked for.....or forgotten or put on the shelf ’dreams’.....

In these dreams I hear a reoccurring theme.....”I wish or I‘ve always dreamed of....owning my own company, having a ‘perfect‘ mate, having a child, taking a trip to....seeing my children walk in healthy relationships, owning such and such a car, a new home, finishing my college education, bringing “Jesus” to the world, being debt free, being rich, retiring etc.”

But I warn you......having your “Dreams Come True”....can
and will......CHANGE YOUR LIFE!
I’ve seen it happen....both good and bad.....
There are many examples of people around me who.....had not the character to handle their.....Dream Come True.
For you see their realized dream were pre-mature to the developing of strength, character and wisdom in order to value and rightfully use the blessing of....Dreams Come True!

Look at the ’stars’ of Hollywood, Sports, Media etc.
Some use their position of influence to help others,..i.e. Warrick Dunn with the Tampa Bucs.....others use it entirely to help themselves.
The attention that many drew as a result of their “Dream Come True”.... intensifies the character within......and magnifies it for all the world to see. I have seen in my own family and friends....people change so much as a result of their ’dream’ that they no longer wanted the individuals in their lives that were instrumental in helping then achieve that dream!
How absurd.....how ridiculous.....how STUPID!
It happens every day!

Now I have to tell you that I, also, have seen dreams realized that changed the lives FOR GOOD of the individual and all those around them!
THIS is a Joy to behold. THIS is.....contagious....
Such sharing......ignites a fire of hope and joy and encouragement to such a degree that the “Blessed”......becomes a Blessing....

It is for this that I pray for all of you!
I am praying a Scripture from The Bible to support my New Years wish and prayer for all of you my family, my friends, my readers.

Proverbs 13:12 from the Living Bible....
........Hope deferred makes the heart sick....BUT WHEN DREAMS COME TRUE AT LAST.....THERE IS LIFE AND JOY!!!

THIS is my prayer for YOU and all those you hold dear.

*******HAPPY NEW YEAR....2003!