This is the time to celebrate renewal. New Year's Day is a new beginning as I step into a new life putting behind me all the sad and difficult experiences of 2007 and accepting that from each one of them there were positive lessons to be drawn. The precious birth of the Cosmic Christ, the Gautama Buddha's glorious enlightenment, the coming of a new springtime - these are surely all symbols of renewal that we can use as benchmarks for our own new beginnings as we strive to put behind us bad times and grasp all the opportunities that life is offering us. Let us embrace life, not in any airy fairy way sort of a way, but with care and consideration searching our heart for what we are truly passionate about and then affirming our intention to cultivate our passions in a positive and creative way. If there is any serious message we can draw out of all the silly haha that goes on at New Year's Eve, then it is surely this: Let us make a new beginning and live our lives more passionately from the heart, cultivating all the talents that God has given us to enhance our lives and the lives of those around us whom we love. Let us wish for their happiness and for their highest good, too.
And, also let us wish for the saving of our own dear Mother Earth and make up our minds to do something about it in 2008 by reducing our own carbon footprints just a little, because every little counts. Maybe we just simply need to care more in 2008, for ourselves, for all beings, and for Mother Earth. We need to be gentle with ourselves and not beat ourselves up and we need to deal with others in the same way, acknowledging with compassion the suffering that each and everyone of us undergoes. In this way, we can enhance our capacity for unconditional compassion through the opening up of our hearts. Yes, in 2008, let us live more from our hearts. It will help.
Wishing everyone a happy and blessed New Year.
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