Happy New Year!

A new year! So much hope and expectation rides on this moment. Maybe this year I won't blow it. Maybe this will be the year I do everything right, with all the proper motivation. Maybe this year...will be different.

I did wake up to see my first book listed on Amazon as the #1 dog training book, #2 dog book, and in the top thousand of all authors on Amazon (out of over a million...) I was thrilled with the surge of the first book, but hopeful for the new little dog book (The Untrained Human) just out because I think it has a nice little message.

But besides that lovely New Year surprise, I also awoke from a dream that I was slowly climbing a mountain, and on the way up was robbed. My purse was stolen and I was left climbing the mountain with no money, no identification, and no idea what to do next. I guess my subconscious is telling me I am fighting an uphill battle, and it is not going to get easier.

Matt and Karissa, my dear son and daughter-in-law, have the right idea. Start the new year with a bunny. And not just any bunny. A long haired mop of a bunny so hidden under her soft fuzzy fur that it really seems no harm could ever reach her, or those who hold her near.

After that awful dream, I awoke and could not sleep. I did not have a long haired mop of a bunny to reach for, so I grabbed my Bible. Actually, I grabbed my iPhone because I have several versions of many Bibles on it. I opened the first Bible app.

This is what I read:
"But I am poor and needy; 'Yet' The Lord thinketh upon me: Thou are my help and my deliverer; Make no tarrying, O my God." Psalm 40:17.

I closed my eyes and repeated those words, hoping to hold them in my memory. How incredible that The Lord of Heaven and Earth "thinketh upon me." What more do I need to climb the mountain of a New Year?

Happy New Year, friends! Remember, The Lord thinketh upon you, is your help and deliverer. Make no tarrying, O my God, but if you do, tarry alongside me as I climb.

Psalm 40:16-17 (NIV)
But may all who seek you rejoice and be glad in you; may those who long for your saving help always say, “The Lord is great!” [17] But as for me, I am poor and needy; may the Lord think of me. You are my help and my deliverer; you are my God, do not delay.

New Book available at:

ebook:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Well-Trained-Human-ebook/dp/B00AV6VVEM/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1357049790&sr=1-1&keywords=ebook+the+well+trained+human

Print:
through Hollowcreekfarm.org
or Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Well-Trained-Human-Manual-Dogs/dp/1481877100/ref=la_B006XJ2DWU_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1357049635&sr=1-7


-save a dog- hollowcreekfarm.org