crap! it's the New Year

The symbolism was rich; I just don’t know exactly what it symbolized:

The first major event of 2007 for me was a funeral. There I sat, looking at the closed casket of our best friend’s father. My wife and I didn’t know the deceased very well, but we were there to support our friends.
Whenever New Year’s celebration shows up in movies, it often symbolizes the transition from the old to the new. If you analyze the story, you would discover the ‘reality’ behind the symbol. So I sat trying to discern the reality behind the symbol. Was 2006 dead, and I had to grieve it, and start over? Duh!

’06 wasn’t the best year for me. It was year of pursuing a number of dreams, and none of them really coming true. I have to bury the frustrations of last year, but not the dreams. I am facing the new year with a determination to take my future into my hands and create the opportunity for some of those dreams to come true. I think I waited for the whole of last year for someone else to make them come true. That is, I pursued employment in order to get "the job" that would meet my financial needs and my career needs.

However, just bubbling under the surface all year, was the idea (dream?) of starting a web-site on which I launched my self, my work, and created a virtual home from which to market my skills. In other words, take my future into my own hands.

Maybe God will help those who help themselves? I think I’ve waited on God, and I got this dream. I kept asking him for a job, and he reminded me of this dream. "But I don’t have what it takes to do it myself!" I yell at the dream. "I know. Do it anyway," it yells back.

Crap! I think I have to do it anyway.