You've got two Eve's and two Day's---what's next?

Now that Christmas Eve and Christmas Day have passed we are now all focused on New Years Eve and New Years Day. I might suggest this is not a bad pattern to focus on a little bit at a time every now and then, but we must also focus on the big picture in our lives too.
The problem with day to day focus living is that if this consumes us our lives basically involve no planning, just living. This will deprive us of not just needed personal development in our lives, but it will eventually rob us of dreams, hopes and aspirations. There are moments in all our lives that do require us to live and survive but that type of lifestyle will run her course and we will find ourselves empty handed and farther down the road of depression, self respect, and vision.
When you find the need to be singular in focus a few suggestions might be to make sure that you have some friends coming by to visit that are living the dream, and or still pushing toward their sense of self and accomplishment. Another suggestion would be to not stay locked away, but make sure you get out of the house, visit some folks you really like and that are encouragers and see that the world is still moving. Often times when trouble hits our door or difficult times fill our lives we just do the day type living thing and we forget about everything and everyone else. This of course is not good.
Focus living begins with a purpose, some trusted friends for advice and support and a determination to not die without a fight. Certainly to fail is not a failure, to find ourselves against the wall is not the end nor is struggling and having to have assistance the end of the world. These are all facts of life that most of us have experienced, and I am suggesting that we’ve experienced all of these moments too. There is no shame in having help, but there is shame in relying totally on help without our involvement to make the situation better.
Motivation is the drive, determination, encouragement, inspiration or courage to take a step, make a change, or go after something that is before you. In this type of motivational living there will be many hard days no doubt. There will be moments of loneliness and defeat, but the key is the courage to not accept such and become that single focused person, but to keep dreaming, fighting, pushing, clawing, or whatever it takes to keep moving. Sometimes in accepting motivation we are looking for immediate results that put us ahead, and that is not always the end result. Personally, I can feel ahead knowing that I left no stone unturned, that I gave something my all and even though the results I would have wished for or sought after didn’t come my way, I have self respect knowing that I didn’t just stand around and do nothing.
So, while you’ve just experienced an eve and a day with Christmas and now you are ready for another eve and day with New Years, what direction will you head toward after these too pass? For myself I have determined that “life is worth the living because He lives”. I am always someone who enjoys a song and the message is just perfect not only for me but I would think for many that we all know that have questions about life and how to live it.
When you need or want a reason to live---Jesus is a great answer! When you think your hope is gone and the struggles are too great to bear---Jesus is available! When you think that all your friends have gone, and you may be right---just remember that Jesus is a friend that sticks by closer then a brother!
Merry Christmas 2008 and Happy New Year 2009, and if you need more then this to get your life going again, just remember there is more to the Star of Bethlehem then just a light to follow to one destination. The Star is a light for choice after choice and decision after decision.

Until then