Ignore everything that doesn’t serve the honoring of your purpose. Not ignore as in pretend it isn’t there- ignore as in find a way to keep your eyes on the purpose at the end of the tunnel no matter whats pressing up against you. We lose our way when we get so lost in our distractions that we lose faith in finding our path. But when we can hold a vision of purpose safe no matter what…it deepens within us and ensures that we will honor it when the moment is right…..Jeff Brown

may we jump into this year with curiosity, vibrancy, and trust…..may we move through this year being our own best friend…..may we offer our best self to others…..may we love….

The blessing of a new year is the reminder that we can begin again and again- not just in January, but whenever we need to, with each dawn, each breath. Some days I begin again dozens or hundreds of times. We are human, so we will inevitably at times become distracted and weary. We will wander from the clarity of knowing that is beyond articulation and understanding, the moments of sitting in the centre of what we are and why we are here, the awareness that is rooted in Love.

Often it is the deep longing to reach for the Beloved within and around me that helps me begin again. But sometimes I lose even this, cannot find the end of the thread of that longing that will take me home to the Infinite Love I have tasted in moments of grace. And then I find, to my astonishment, that even this lack, this loss of feeling and faith, when willingly experienced fully, can make me available to the longing that guides me home.

Ah, words are inadequate to convey the gift of beginning again remembering those moments when the whole ball of wax (including myself) was revealed as the sacred unfolding, the Love that sustains it all. But still I try to touch it with my words, gently asking myself- Have I been faithful to what I knew in those moments when the Beloved broke through to me? What would it look like today to be faithful to knowing myself and every other as Beloved? How would I prepare food, speak to a friend or a stranger, walk on the earth, be with myself if I allow this awareness to permeate and guide me? And I begin, again……Oriah Mountain Dreamer