Happy New Year!

ith the end of 2010 and the beginning of 2010, Karen and I thought we would share some New Year's quotes and thoughts with you. We hope you are anticipating good tidings, many blessings and good will for 2010. Karen and I do not make resolutions to be broken but we do make plans for the new year and a few of ours are:
to serve others better, have more heart, be better listeners, observe more, to love more and to live one day at a time.
Thank you all for making 2009 a memorable year. May 2010 be a year of hope, of peace and joy and may your heart be happy.

Happy New Year!

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.
Albert Einstein

Glory to God in highest heaven,
Who unto man His Son hath given;
While angels sing with tender mirth,
A glad new year to all the earth.
~Martin Luther

Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man. ~Benjamin Franklin

It wouldn't be New Year's if I didn't have regrets. ~William Thomas

He who breaks a resolution is a weakling;
He who makes one is a fool.
~F.M. Knowles

Another fresh new year is here . . .
Another year to live!
To banish worry, doubt, and fear,
To love and laugh and give!

This bright new year is given me
To live each day with zest . . .
To daily grow and try to be
My highest and my best!

I have the opportunity
Once more to right some wrongs,
To pray for peace, to plant a tree,
And sing more joyful songs!
William Arthur Ward

Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it. T.S. Eliot

We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started... and know the place for the first time. T.S. Eliot

Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things. T.S. Eliot

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music. T.S. Eliot

Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Let this coming year be better than all the others. Vow to do some of the things you've always wanted to do but couldn't find the time. Call up a forgotten friend. Drop an old grudge, and replace it with some pleasant memories. Vow not to make a promise you don't think you can keep. Walk tall, and smile more. You'll look ten years younger. Don't be afraid to say, 'I love you'. Say it again. They are the sweetest words in the world.
Ann Landers

Nothing is worth more than this day.
Goethe

Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.
Brooks Atkinson

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
Henry Ward Beecher

When we once begin to form good resolutions, God gives us every opportunity of carrying them out.
St John Chrysostom

You crown the year with Your goodness, And Your paths drip with abundance. Psalm. 65:11

Here are some photographs we hope will encourage and inspire you.