Be Thou My Vision, New Year's Jar

Last year on Facebook I saw a post about creating a jar filled with the good things that happen to you throughout the year in the New Year, and then on New Year's Eve open the jar and reflect on all the good that has happened to you the entire year. With my word for this year being remember, I felt that it was a perfect fit. I can write down all the good that I remember happening to me and those I love each day and put it in the jar. 

So far, I have several little strips of paper folded up and placed in it for the first 11 days of the year. I really desire to keep this up. I feel that it will create a positive vision of each day, and the entire year. Two years ago I focused on the word joy and last year the word gratitude, and this actually encompasses them both. I have written down things that made me smile, blessings that happened, and things that others said or did that brightened my day. I have always strived to look for the good in every situation, but like anyone, I am not perfect at it, and I think this will help me do that more. 

I am actually really excited to look back and see the blessings that I chose to count. Those things that I decided to remember and to share that with my husband and children that live at home. If they want to anyway. Who knows, I might enjoy it on my own, but so far, all of them have been very interested in my jar and have taken little slips of paper out to read something I felt was good in my life. It was really neat because what they pulled out mentioned them. I don't think that is an accident. Each person got to see something within the first 11 days of this year that I felt was good in my life because of them or with them. 

As I was writing this, I heard the following song and I love it. I hope you enjoy it.