So much is riding on tonight or rather, this morning. This is the time of the year that we come up with silly rhymes to match the new calendar. More in 2004. Staying Alive in 2005. Going for the Fix in 2006. Closer to Heaven in 2007. Times will be great in 2008. Whoa! Somebody stop me!
Yes indeed, a lot is riding on how this year starts off. For me, I hear firecrackers in the background and I am continuing the tradition of having collard greens and black eyed peas as the first meal of 2008. If my memory serves me correctly, collards symbolize wealth and black eyed peas represent good fortune (luck). To top it all off, I am watching a Humphrey Bogart movie in black and white. (The Big Sleep, if you must know.)
Is it true when they say that how you start something is how you will end it? So this is how my singleness will look this time next year? Or will it evolve in to something entirely different? I started and ended the year in church, so doesn’t that mean God will bless me? I had collard greens and black eyed peas, so doesn’t that mean that I will have more money and good luck? I am enjoying a good classic movie, so doesn’t that mean I have good tastes?
With so much riding on these first few hours of 2008, can anyone tell me that my singleness will have more answers than questions this year? You see, up to this point, being single for me had lots of sentences that ended with question marks and very few with periods. Lord, I have been patient. Can you please supply responses to my inquiries?
But for the time being, I will enjoy my collard greens, black eyed peas, while watching a classic movie that is competing with firecrackers for my attention. Maybe I will be alone this time next year or maybe I will find true love. Could it be that I will finally figure out this singleness thing? Who knows? Uh-oh, there goes some more questions.
For everyone who is reading this blog, may your singleness reap the benefits of collard greens, black eyed peas and may you get to do many of the things you enjoy like watching a good black and white movie.
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HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!
Kevin,
I pray that God continues to work in your life each day and you continue to grow in His word.
I pray that He also blesses you with the desires of your heart.
It is now 2008 and what will I do to make sure it is not like 2007.
I am following that same thing I did each year before. Church,greens, black eyed peas, rice, endless football and sleep before work. Isn't this suppose to be the year of change? What have I changed? Something is wrong with this picture. Maybe I shouldn't eat those greens...
But Happy New Year Dude
LBJ "s"
Happy New Year to the readers and the writer; may this year bring you the desires of your hearts!
The ending of 2007 was not the same as the other years...and I am believing God it is not going to be.
What have I changed? I ended the year by attending church as usual but church was different -–a good different that is. I started the year traditionally, yes I have eaten the black-eyed peas and greens but I did not have to cook them and it tasted OK. Instead of watching my favorite movies in black and white; my favorite movies are now in color. My favorite NFL team, the Dallas Cowboys is winning which this time last year I was thinking of changing teams and going on Cowboy fan strike.
Seriously, the beginning of the year is not what concerns me, it is the ending so everyone that knows a word of prayer please send one up for my daddy who had major heart surgery on Christmas Eve…I know God is faithful so everything will work out for the good…
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