I love New Year's Day. I like new
beginnings and new opportunities. I like the prerogative to change my mind. But in fact, this new year will bring little that is different for me or for you, unless we are different. Each
day of this new year, the sun will rise and life will go on, with things unfolding as usual and as we create them in consciousness.
I invite you to think of this new year differently. It is not just another year. Eric Butterworth said to think of it as the midpoint to eternity
. If we think of this year as being the mid-point to eternity, it suddenly becomes more significant. From where we are today is the mid-point of our soul's
experience. The past is all that is behind us. The future is all that is yet to be experienced and achieved.
At our Burning Bowl experience at the end of last year, we took a brief look into our past, not with regret or resistance, but with the idea of letting go and being complete with a part of what and who we
had been. We can't have the year back to set things right, but we can begin to see things rightly. There is beautiful freedom in completion and release.
As we move forward into 2009, let us not look back anymore. Let us erase backward thinking consciousness. We are not just going "back to
work" or "back to school" or getting "back to normal." These words imply monotony and boredom and unhappiness. Never go back to
anything! Go forward to the new adventures that each day holds. Life is an ongoing adventure. Let this new year be a time of reaching forward with eager anticipation.
If we awaken to the idea that today is the mid-point of eternity, each new day of this New Year becomes an opportunity to be fully in the
moment, fully alive. We can then go forward with faith that our year will unfold in a joint effort of our thoughts aligning with the creative energy of God, our Source.
Each Sunday, we end our church service with one of the most beautiful affirmations – written by James Dillet Freeman - Wherever I am, God is.
In the coming year, wherever you may be in time and space, God is with you.
Abundant blessings,
Robin
