Today I will speak of Beginnings, since this is already the 2nd month of the new year. 2013 Started with no big bangs for me this year. It was a quiet' cold night- home with the kids watching movies. I was glad for a peaceful night- as 2012 ( a year of great hardship and change for me) slipped away into the night. I was not sad to see it go. Watching some deep painful days fade into the past suited me just fine, on this crisp night. Several weeks later, I sit staring out at a rainy bland day. Already the year is flying and I feel the draw of time as it strives against my plans and I try to angle my direction for the year. Today I think about the concept of how there seems sometimes to be a circle of emotion and experience that we flow in. About a "beginning" in the concept of circles and how there is not a definite beginning or end. Do you have to have an end for a new start? Is there always a beginning where there was an end? Spirals of life flow on and on, making rows and layers of memories. I see that in the circle of life... there is birth and death. At the birth of a baby there is death of the 'single soul', as now the mother is two and must live for her child and not only her own self. Again at marriage- death of self (hopefully), as we move into the beginning 'coupled life'. Every time you start something new- you leave something behind. It may be a way of life or a thought process... quitting one job to take on the skills of another.... moving away from what you've known to a new fresh place. When it is time for a necessary ending-- there is usually a beginning in sight. Today I want to encourage anyone in reach of my written words to look around their life at the stale patterns and move into a new, fresh process. Choose one stagnant element of your life that needs to change-- find a way to end the adverse action that is contrary to the success of your future.... then breathe deeply and with a new fervor make a choice for your next beginning!
