So…. we’ve made it finally to the dawn of a new decade. Wow. Thinking about it now, I can say with a large degree of certainty that 2009 sucked rocks. For what it’s worth, so did 2008 and 2007. Well, 2007 was cool I guess, but I think 2006 and 2005 were much better for me, although I can barely remember those years now–so I can’t say for sure.
What I can say for sure is that I haven’t in a very long time looked so forward to a new year in a very looooong time. The beautiful thing about 2009 for me was all the life lessons I’ve learned and all of the relational baggage I’ve unpacked and just in the nick of time.
Everything else is a blur. And I’m sure it’s for a good reason. That good reason is that finally a new year is upon us and all that is past is now passed, thank God! What we take into this new year is completely and utterly up to us. We can take all of our past resentment, anger, anxiety, hurt feelings, bad relationships, hard times, and what not. Or we can forgive ourselves of these things, free them from our psyche, forgive the people that hurt us and move in to the new year with a clean frame of mind, an open heart and and a buoyant spirit.
I don’t know about you, but I’m all about and all for what’s behind door number two. I’m glad I took the time and energy to deal with all the things I was holding on to for years. There were so many things to forgive my self and other people for that I had no idea I still remembered or was holding on to. Because I keep an optimistic outlook on most everything, I thought just “moving on” was enough. What I learned was, simply “moving on” and not dealing with things–like really dealing with them and working through them and appreciating the lesson learned and even forgiving the circumstance or the person in a very practical way, often leads to emotional pile ups that cause our spirits to feel heavy over time. So heavy, we don’t even know what’s holding us down when our feet start dragging when we walk into a new opportunity like this new year.
Even if you haven’t done any of the things I’ve described yet, as you get ready for the party you’re off to, it is never too late to make a new start and create new circumstances and clean and clear your emotional what nots. You have 365 new days to take the initiative to make your life exactly what your heart and spirit is screaming at you to LET it be. The promise and possibility of 2010 to me is about being grateful for where you are because you can dig your ditches in any fertile ground you find yourself standing. And then, do some amazing things with the opportunities that surround you at every turn…and then…watch as your ditches begin to fill–seemingly all by themselves.
Did you always want to start your own business? Make a plan, you’ll find a way. Are you looking for your true love? Be open and willing, he or she will find their way. Is debt, the economy, or lack looming in your life? See yourself in abundance. Be grateful for what you have already and feel glorious that what you need, have, and want are all in alignment.
Whatever your big plans for 2010 or for your life as a whole are already yours for the taking. The only thing required of our mortal souls is to believe in possibility, get our minds right and do our due diligence in the direction of our hearts desires. Dig your ditches, free yourself from the baggage and soar.
2010 is a lotus flower unfolding before our very eyes. The thing about a lotus flower is that she peeks up from what looks like mud and turns something– that most people who walk by only see as wet dirt–into a glorious Eden… fragrant, colorful and beautiful.
No matter what you’re taking in to 2010, I pray when the new year dawns, instead of seeing mud, that you’ll see what’s actually there–An Eden of adventure and insurmountable possibility. Peace and Abundant Blessings!!!
The moral of this story….Happy New Year and a divinely happy and better You!!!
See you on the other side…