The New Year is coming closer with a slow step. It’s coming slowly so you can make yourself new. The Indian New Year is a social celebration, but your New Year is a religious celebration because it includes the birth of a great Master. Holy Christ, the incarnation of love, gave two basic principles to the world: Love and Service. Love is God, and Service is our puja, or worship to Him. All other principles are included in these two. You need not find love outside yourself. That love is already hidden in your heart. You only have to awaken it and radiate its light outward. May the New Year bring you happiness. May your humanitarian qualities increase. May the flower of your love bloom, and may its fragrance spread everywhere. This is my blessing and good wishes to you. Your beloved Grandfather, Bapuji. Jai Bhagwan. (I bow down to the Divine within you.)

~Bapuji,

take me with you; said my soul…..

inquiry for today~ when will life be just enough?

when we need each other….

Whereas in actual fact winter is kind, she points us in her quiet soft way towards our inner self, towards this annual time of peace and reflection, embracing the darkness and forgiving, accepting and loving embracing goodbye the past year.

“Winter takes away the distractions, the buzz, and presents us with the perfect time to rest and withdraw into a womb like love, bringing fire & light to our hearth”.

.. and then, just around the corner the new year will begin again, and like a seed planted deep in the earth, we will all rise with renewed energy once again to dance in the sunlight.

~Bridget Anna McNeil