Happy New Year!
With a new year, a brand NEW YEAR comes a GIFT for YOU! A VERY PRECIOUS GIFT just for you! From the Heavens above you have received another very precious gift. Imagine it wrapped in a beautiful box, colored blue, with a BIG bow colored with your favorite color!
What is it? Open it! See? It’s BEAUTIFUL and oh! so PRECIOUS: 525,600 minutes! In 2009 you have been reserved 31,536,000 seconds! Did you read that? 31,536,000 seconds!!!
What are you going to do with them? That is where your focus should be as you begin the journey! How will you treasure this precious gift of time?
Go within. How can you HONOR this precious gift? Ask the questions? You will see that by asking the questions, you will find the answers!
I have gone within. I always go within. For the past 7 years of my life I have began the habit of taking the New Year as an opportunity of getting a major look at my own “picture”. I look at it all from above. I mentally remove myself from it and look at it from high above. How does it look like? I am going in the direction of my Vision? How did I use MY GIFT of time? MY TIME! How do I intend to honor it moving into the New Year?
I keep reminding myself that it is not only “just another year” starting. It is 365 days, 52 weeks, and what I am doing each moment counts! 
With goals, with set intentions, it becomes so much easier to understand in which direction we are moving. I have lived without them, and I have lived with them. And having done both, I can firmly and knowledgeably say: I am so much happier when I have a sense of direction. I KNOW in my heart what I am working for.
I know what takes me out of bed in the morning. Do you? How clear is your WHY? In my experience, only by having set intentions for each moment of my life do I feel I am moving forward with my life’s vision, mission, and purpose….my life’s calling!
I always stop and go within. For this season and in line with wishing to have intentions set for the New Year, I would love to share a prayer with you. Inspired by the thoughts and Divine intentions behind the words in this prayer, I set my intentions for 2009. I encourage you to focus on the wisdom and divinity behind each word.
Enjoy!
“Lord, make me a channel of thy peace,
that where there is hatred, I may bring love;
that where there is wrong, I may bring the spirit of forgiveness;
that where there is discord, I may bring harmony;
that where there is error, I may bring truth;
that where there is doubt, I may bring faith;
that where there is despair, I may bring hope;
that where there are shadows, I may bring light;
that where there is sadness, I may bring joy.
Lord, grant that I may seek rather to comfort
than to be comforted;
to understand, than to be understood;
to love, than to be loved.
For it is by self-forgetting that one finds.
It is by forgiving that one is forgiven.
It is by dying that one awakens to Eternal Life.”
~ (Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi)
For each of the 52 weeks in 2009, I invite you to take one thought at a time and share it with the younger ones, ALL the Children, Teens, and Young Adults in your life. Bring them close to you, call them, and share with them these powerful and inspiring intentions. Then, each single week find ways to honor each one of these divine and sacred wishes with specific actions that allow them to be brought to life.
What do YOU choose to give attention to this New Year? What do YOU choose to share with your own Child and the Children in YOUR life this New Year?
I choose to model the behavior I am looking for in them. I therefore choose to live a life that honors each intention above.
Where there is a Child, where there is a young soul, may adults around them choose to bring them to the Light! May adults choose to BE the change they wish to witness in the future generations to come! For it is by example that we best lead!
May each adult choose to breath Spirit (inspire) into the lives of all the Children and Younger Ones around them!
Please hug all the Young Ones in your life for me. For I honor and treasure each one of them!
Happy New Year! Wishes of a joy, peace within, and abundance to you and yours!
In Service and Spirit,
Selma
Dreamer, Believer, Inspired
Child/Youth Honoring Leader
at Dream Believe Inspire
. If you have little ones, any age between 0-2 years old, you do something on their behalf, record it, take photos of it, and share with them the tradition of GIVING you started on their behalf. Talk to them about it, for they are listening as young as they may be. 
