“This year will be better …” we say to ward off the aftertaste of the year gone by. As the effervescent bubbles of New Year’s Eve flatten into the sober days of January and we minister to the minutiae of our daily lives, “Life” will enter softly through the open door, catching us unprepared. Life will bring calamities that that spin and skid us off the smooth tarmac of our carefully scheduled 2019 New Year planner.
This year we will have to bow our heads to the necessity of getting out of bed each day and finding something to be truly grateful for.
“If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down”—Toni Morrison
We will have to push ourselves into the inevitability of change. As we eat of the bitter herb change, know there are important lessons in accepting things as they are. The soul’s choosing is necessary for it’s evolution—not as an accident, not as something good or bad, right or wrong, but as something necessary to be lived, endured and experienced.
Necessity have been outcast in our digital, material culture where we, in our hubris and our self-inflation, actually believe that are all powerful that—we can fix, manifest, cut away, buy, or medicate our way out of any mess we make. Life’s challenges always stops us in our tracks—a least for a while. There is no escape. It’s unyielding, and it’s an opportunity to excavate from the depths of our being, our courage, tenacity, and accept what is.
Whatever You’re Meant to Do, Do it Now!
This New Year, necessity may lay it’s hand on a defining moment in our life. It may quiet the tug-o’-war of your heart’s calling, blocking the mind’s plan. There may be no escape, except a shift in perception and the courage to accept the situation and with resilience stay the course and just do it. Author, Doris Lessing once said, “Whatever you’re meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.”
Shrug off the old year and look with hopeful eyes of the pristine newness of the year ahead. The terrain of the landscape this year can be a template for the choices we must make to fly as we let go those things that weigh us down or stoically accept that things are as they are for now.
Miracles happen. Taste life to the fullest. Don’t try and press it down. Don’t hide from it. Don’t try to escape. As we honor necessity, we can choose which threads and which colors we want to weave into the mosaic of our lives.
Peace, Love and Blessings in the New Year,
Paula
