New Year with New Beginnings

I face today January 2nd with hope for new beginnings in 2009. The final chapter of one book will be written in the first quarter of this year. I'm not waiting to begin writing the new book as I am convinced new beginnings should start with the New Year.
As Melody Beattie writes:
“Certainly things happen that are out of our control. Sometimes, these events are pleasant surprises; sometimes, they are of another nature. But they are all part of the chapter that will be this year in our life and will lead us forward in the story.
The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book , waiting to be written. ;…”

I am anxious to move my story forward in this year. It has been to long that the story has been written in past tense. As Dale Carnegie would say, "my glass is half full again instead of half empty" and the Book of Joel 1:19-20, the adversity does not prevail. His Love is for each of us if we call out to Him. I know that the burden is mine to keep my heart open to the possibilities, so look out world here I come!!