New Year's Day

Happy happy New Year 2009 everyone!

"I hold the year in My Hands in trust for you. But I shall guide you one day at a time. Each day I supply the wisdom and the strength."

From my Google Home Page. The message seems appropriate as we begin again.

I awoke this morning thinking of addiction. I have spent sometime counseling addicts, mostly alcholics, in my practice over the years. I also was married to an alcoholic for 27 years. One of my father-in-law's died from cancer brought on by his alcoholism. I've witnessed the destruction and pain brought on by addictions through my personal experience as well as the experiences of my clients. I offer this brief discourse only because I want you to know where I am coming from when I write about addiction to alcohol.

I recently watched as two parents who have "drinking problems" themselves and have alcoholism in their genetic background, offer their minor children beer and wine coolers. One thing about the disease of alcohol addiction is a chemical reaction within the brain to that first taste of alcohol that sets that person up for the craving. That being a very important fact for any parent to know and warn their children of the danger of the first drink. But offering that first drink - no way. Ill-advised parents rationalize their behavior by believing they are somehow "educating" their kids before they go out into the world where they will be exposed to alcohol. When actually they are setting them up for a lifetime of alcohol abuse. The parents would be better off changing their own lifesytles to set an example for those young people and then educating them in the perils of alcohol abuse.

This is the first day of our new world. We can choose to create whatever we want in our world now. We stood posed last night ready to dive into 09 at midnight. This is going to be an exciting year for many of us. There will be many changes - some of those changes will be painful but as I wrote a few days ago, with destruction there follows construction. I like the image of the phoenix rising out of the ashes. We can build something very exciting, innovative and earth-friendly. We have a new leader who knows what he is here for - we will make many changes in our lives and our beliefs that will allow us to fall in behind our leader on this march through change.

Congratulations ya'll.

Love and Light abundant from "She Who Sits In The January Sunlight"