Being Enough

My thoughts for the New Year dwell on a combination of common emotions, as I contemplate my ambitions for the upcoming year. 

One of Google’s explanations for vulnerable is “being exposed to the possibility of being attacked or harmed either physically or emotionally”. (Oxford Dictionary) 

Oxford Dictionary explains psychological as “affecting, or arising in the mind; related to the mental and emotional state of a person.” 

The concern we humans carry regarding “Being Enough” is directly associated with our emotional and mental well-being. 

on Risk Management 

In the business world of corporations, the duties concerning Risk Management will generally be assigned to people with a natural ability to view and assess a situation from a level-headed unbiased perspective. Risk management professionals will use case studies, market trends, speculation of dollar value and interest predictions to arrive at a justifiable position for measuring the risk, and determining if the rewards are potentially worth the risk involved. 

Cambridge Dictionary explains Risk as “the possibility of something bad happening”. 

So here I find myself, facing a New Year. I get to choose. Will I choose a vulnerable position? Will I allow my mind to embrace the joy of yesterday? Will I remember the wins, or the defeats? 

I am resolved to enter the trail of ascent. I will be brave enough to read over my blog essays. I will face the ones that I couldn’t get “together” in simple understandable terms. As well as the ones in which I accomplished more effectively what I had desired to portray. I will give the honour to God. 

I will do a risk assessment; knowing full well that the truth of the matter is that I am “Not Enough”. I will bring my “Not Enough” to Jesus, knowing that, as I put my hand in his, he makes me “Enough”. 

I will accept that 14 days after New Year’s I will reach three score and ten years. Psalm 90:10 – “The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow;”   

I will fearlessly accept my hearing loss, even though it continually wants to impress me as a disqualifying factor in The Race*.  I will humbly ask people to repeat themselves so I, too, can hear. And, regarding those who insist on mumbling, I will accept that it is better that I didn’t hear. 

As encouragement and support continues to lift my Spirits I will try as well as I can to write the blogs, knowing full well that I am many times putting my heart and inner man on the web for the world to critique. 

I will not take for granted the youthfulness God has gifted me. I will not accept the statistical age of retirement.  I will allow God to choose when to retire me.  I will engage in “Input Boot Camp” realizing that what I gain is much more than what I give. 

My prayer this New Year is God…”…grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.“ – Reinhold Niebuhr 

God Bless you all this New Year 

*Footnote: “Get Up and Win that Race” attributed to Dr. D.H. (Dee) Groberg in “The Race”