Raise your glass for the new year

New Year's Eve is tomorrow night and I simply cannot believe how much has changed since this time last year. As I look back and reflect on all that has happened, the good and the bad, I think in the end I realize that I am happier with things now than I was at this time last year. I feel like I've been through a war over the last year, only those closest to me really know why and what happened, but in the end I finally feel like I'm finding some peace from that war. I am certainly stronger coming out of it. I have a new appreciation for the important people in my life. I have a new understanding of what I have to offer others in my life. I have a new view of what I am looking for in life. And to start of the new year, I have some really good new things happening that fill me with hope for the future. A life of value. A life of goodness. A life of happiness.

Here is to 2008. I'm ringing it in with great hope, and I hope everyone else is too.