God is good.

It's funny how at the start of a new year you stop to think about all the things you did (or didn't do) in the past, and how you only hope to change for the better. The Jewish New Year is tomorrow and it just so happens that I'll be celebrating my 32nd birthday as well.

As I've gotten older; the significance has changed from the number of years that I've achieved in my age - to the number of years I'll have left to achieve those things I've always hoped for myself. I sometimes wonder how my mother felt on the day that she gave birth to her first daughter, and I question what feelings of achievement (or any lack of) she may have been pondering over at the time.

By 1977 my mother had already moved to a foreign land, had been married for nearly five years, and already had one child (my brother).... all this at the modest age of twenty-eight years old. Hear I am; four years beyond that age and still wondering when I will find time to do it all. It's only fitting that with this birthday, I make a resolution instead of a wish.... A resolution to go after all the things I've been too afraid to do or too busy to stop and go after. NO more excuses.

It's a new year and I am grateful for what God has blessed me with, but more thankful for the lessons he still has yet to teach me.