How did 2023 fare for you? Was it a mixture of the good, the bad, or the ugly? Perhaps it was better than expected or you experienced an unusual unexpected loss. I am sorry if you experienced some great loss. In any event the year is almost over and a new chapter will begin in 2024. How will you approach this coming year with many unknowns. Will you face it with fear, sadness, discouragement, courage, faith, excitement, resilience, resolve, or steadfastness? However you face it or embrace it, do it with honesty and integrity. It will pay off in the long haul.
I would like to thank each of you who read my posts or blogs. There was both progress and growth for me personally, and I know for several of you as you shared with me. This is rewarding to me.
I personally struggled with a lack of energy at times physically. I sought out a couple of new opportunities for some possible career changes that did not work out like I thought it would. The best part was that I took the risks to try and gained a boatload of wisdom and insight. I will say my wife was supportive in these adventures and always discussed before I try. I want to encourage you to take some risks this year and use wisdom. You will never know unless you try and take the risk. Several of you are retiring or in transition. Your life is not over and it is just another chapter in this great gift called life. I like to look at it as retreading, refocusing or turning another page. My faith in Christ always sustains me even in the most challenging of circumstances. God’s promises never fail us. There is no need to fear your future. Face it with faith, courage, and expectancy. “No one will be able to stand against you as long as you live. For I will be with you as I was with Moses. I will not fail you or abandon you. “Be strong and courageous, for you are the one who will lead these people to possess all the land I swore to their ancestors I would give them. Be strong and very courageous. Be careful to obey all the instructions Moses gave you. Do not deviate from them, turning either to the right or to the left. Then you will be successful in everything you do. Study this Book of Instruction continually. Meditate on it day and night so you will be sure to obey everything written in it. Only then will you prosper and succeed in all you do. This is my command—be strong and courageous! Do not be afraid or discouraged. For the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.” Joshua.1:5-9 NLT
Notice 3 times it states, “to be strong and courageous” verses 5,7,9. We need to be reminded more than once!
May you experience A Happy, Healthy, Prosperous, Safe New Year in 2024.
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Greetings! My name is Andy Provitola and I live in New England on the South Shore between Boston and the beautiful Cape Cod region.
The purpose of my blogging and writing is to encourage you in your journey here on planet earth. Life is full of pressing issues and problems and my desire is to discover a place for peace, hope, healing, and contentment. I am a follower of Jesus Christ – God’s one and only Son and I discovered these truths along my own personal journey.
Having discovered a personal relationship with God the Father through Jesus Christ does not mean I have to be religious to attain the rewards of heaven. The fact is God provides grace for us and accepts us as we are in His image. In other words, we cannot attain heaven or life eternal on our own, but by God’s loving grace and no merit of our own. Simply by accepting Him by faith and believing.
My goal is to continue to find a balance of life from a spiritual and practical perspective with a purpose to please and glorify God in all that I do because of His ‘Gift of Grace’.
God is not transcendent and so far away that he is out of reach with humanity. God desires that His presence lives within us and not just in the galaxies and the universe. Experiencing the unconditional love of God has been so rewarding and while discovering the truth and purpose for my life. Moving forward in this life is not a sprint, but a marathon when it comes to this race here on earth.
I am blogging because I find it is a good way to connect in a much more effective and efficient way when it comes to communicating and interacting with people that I know or do not know. Blogging and writing challenges me and also stretches me specifically in my thoughts, my mind, my emotions, and my spiritual life. To live a vertical relation with God and a horizontal relationship with others.
There will be a variety of topics and subjects to address including youth, young adults, family, singles, seniors, relationships, etc. Some of the topics will include God’s creation and power, depression, loneliness, suicide, hope, healing, setbacks, financial matters, business, stress, anxiety, care, encouragement, and so much more.
I would like to connect with all walks of life, ethnicity, culturally, other religions, socio-economics, and in so many more ways.
I am currently writing a book and several memoirs about my own life and journey . The journey begins at a young age growing up in Malden, Massachusetts, specifically Maplewood Square to where I am today. I became paralyzed from the waist down as a senior in high school and I share how my life changed for the better!
“But I do not consider my life as something of value or dear to me, so that I may [with joy] finish my course and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus. To testify faithfully of the good news of God’s [precious undeserved] grace [which makes us free of guilt of sin and grants us eternal life]. Acts 20:24 Amplified Version
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