Here we go, another New Year. I’m still trying to accomplish a To-Do list from 2018. Time marches on, and so must we, accomplishments checked off our list or not. I’ve decided to forget making any resolutions for this year since I never keep them anyway. For this new decade, especially since the year is an optometrists’ delight, I’ve dedicated 2020 to be a year of a new vision for me.

I know all about blurry sight.  All I need to do is take my glasses off and my sight smears as if looking at the world through a bouquet of cotton candy. There’s no distinct or sharp point of seeing. My glasses bend the light into my eye to create a sharp 20/20 vision.

I want to take that kind of clarity and make sure I see circumstances, opportunities and purpose up ahead in my life this next year. I want 2020 to be the year I see with clear vision the purpose set before me. This sounds grand, but it doesn’t need to be. Small things, seen clearly and done in love can change a circumstance or at least your heart.

I remember my late husband George, who had a terrible habit of going into a room and never turning off the light when he left it. I could come home in the evening and see our house as a landing strip from down the street, every light inside turned on. He left a trail of turned on light bulbs. It would irritate me to no end until I decided to take a new view of the situation. I decided instead of getting angry and fussing at such a habit, I would use the opportunity to change my vision. Each time I turned off a light left on, as I switched it off, I would say to myself, “I love you, George.” Click light off.

That small change in my attitude from one of annoyance to a whisper of love became a way I could secretly bless my husband and defuse my anger.

Now that he’s passed, I would trade the world to come home to a brightly lit home, instead of dark unlit rooms.

I’m going to use this year, 2020 to improve my internal vision and be on the lookout for opportunities to change my attitude and love others a little more. I believe this might make all the difference.

What about you?

How are you going to use 2020 to change your internal vision for yourself?

~ Janet