“This time of year it gets pretty easy to get our minds wondering and thinking about the year..about what we should’ve done..to what we shouldn’t have done..to the things we let go of..to the things we didn’t get accomplished..and we get pretty distracted and we get pretty depressed about it all..because if we don’t get it right..or if we fail so to speak and make those mistakes then we feel as if we haven’t done anything..or that we have failed all together..but guys let me say something to us all..that by failure it shows that we have at least tried..Amen..and mistakes happen..but with those mistakes, I pray we learn from them..because most of the time that is how we learn great lessons..and that is through our mistakes that have been made in our lives..but as well we don’t always hit the mark so to speak..but we as well are not perfect people..Romans 3:10/Ecclesiastes 7:20..we will fail..we will fall down..we will say things..we will miss the deadlines..we will not always make our quotas in life that we set for ourselves..but we must know that God loves us regardless of our mistakes..and He helps us and teaches us through them all that we make..so this year..yes, it is coming to an end..and maybe it’s not ending the way you wanted it too..and maybe you didn’t get the projects completed that you were hoping for..but my heart and my prayer for us all is that we don’t let our minds and our thoughts beat us up and defeat us..because if we let our minds wander around everywhere somehow we forget all the other good things we have done and have accomplished this year..because we are not failures guys..we are human..and we are living and while we’re living we are learning..Amen..and in that we lean on God..and as the word says a righteous man may fall down seven times but they will rise back up..Proverbs 24:16-18..the thing is that we don’t quit..we don’t focus on the failures of our lives..we do better by them..we learn from them..and then we move on..because as a man thinks the word says so is he..Proverbs 23:7..and I pray we all are thinking on good thoughts..that we are learning and growing past all the shortcomings that we have in our lives..that we are moving forward..that we are learning to make better plans..that we do better next time..that we first and foremost learn how to forgive ourselves..and learn how to speak good words into our lives..into our minds..and into our hearts..for God fearfully and wonderfully made us..and it’s such a shame at how we make our own selves feel..how we overlook the good things we do..and at how we deal on the wrongs we have done..how we focus on the flaws that we all have..rather than focusing our thoughts and our attention on the good things that we do and the good things God has blessed us with..so let us keep our minds on God and who He is..and let us learn from those things that we did or didn’t do this past year..and as we move on into the new year we do better..and we learn to love who we are..and we learn to grow where we are..doing the best we can with what we have..for it is in Jesus’ name, that I do ask and pray..Amen and Amen..Be blessed today my dear sweet friends and remember wherever you go and whatever you do, Be a light for our Father, Much love to you all, Mandi