Fifty States of Pray

A special post today as I participate in Mark Koopmans' 50 States of Pray. 

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Christmas is a religious time for me, but this isn't going to be a religious post. 

It's a post about my reflections on the past year or the one coming. The year 2013 was a crazy busy one for me. Some of it I was in control of and some of it I was not. Upon reflection, I think I could have done better with my time prioritization.

As hard as I'm working on this writing thing, it's easy for the deadlines (and writing and editing and marketing) to consume my life. It's easy for those pressures to make me lose sight of what's important:

The people I love.

So my hope for 2014 is that I will do better with the juggling of my few precious discretionary hours each day.

Merry Christmas
(or whatever holiday you celebrate this time of year)

And a happy birthday tomorrow to my mother who was a Christmas baby. 
She died when I was fourteen--
another reminder of why I need to make the time with my loved ones count.

Yesterday at Shipwrecks Beach.