Happy New Year!
Another year is here and the world is filled with aspirations of better behinds, and grander savings. The focus from 2011 into 2012 were filled with drunken people slurring “Happy New Year” and blowing on loud horns. Families gather at Chinese restaurants, and declare this is a “A New Year A New You”.
It is interesting to me to see how culture views this day. That the focus has shifted from what is most important to embrace about a new year. What if resolutions concentrated merely on faith? Or just being mindful of the energy we put out into the world or being thankful? What if all those people stuffed into gyms right now were at home meditating/praying about how they could perfect their being in God’s name? What if New Years Eve was more about the blessing to be alive and less about if AAA will pick you up if you are drunk?
I dream of life when a New Year is entered in unanimous silence. Not because the world is sleeping, but meditating/praying. How much power that would hold and how much difference can be made?
We are all connected. Not only to each other as humans, but to the swaying tree’s, and the crashing ocean. We share this existence. We also share in abusing it and healing it.
It is easy to catch yourself in a rut. To feel like snapping at your spouse, and irritated your child is to slow getting ready (yes I speak of experience of BOTH just today). The important part is to see you are doing it, to learn from it, and to seek out how you can be a better you in the arms of grace. This isn’t easy, and is the biggest challenge for even the strongest believers. However the key to being mindful is what opens the door to better connections into the world. It helps the healing side of existence instead of the abusing one. Every word we utter, every face we make, every time we say something negative about someone else–it flows into the universe and grows negativity.
My prayer and hope for this year is to be mindful more than I ever have. To seek the silver lining, to find the beauty in everyday life, and live in the arms of grace while providing them as well. My prayer for you is you do the same. Ask yourself that question: New Year-New You? And what the truly means for your soul. The more of us that do, the bigger we give back to our world, not only in 2012, but years to come.
May you be blessed in 2012.
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