Happy New Year!

The family has gone to bed, the dog is snoring contentedly, and it's unusually cold tonight with freeze warnings. The new year 2011 is only minutes old and I'm wondering what lessons I am to learn this year as well as what lessons I may teach.  As I appreciate the quiet stillness of the house, I am grateful for family, friends, food, shelter, work and think of those who tonight are not with their loved ones or are hungry, cold, or out of work, or suffering in mind, body, or spirit. I pray this new year for peace in our hearts, our homes, our nation, and our world and that we be satisfied with enough rather than constantly seeking plenty.