New Years Blessings to each and every one of you! It’s going to be a wonderful year! I hear some of you asking how that can be possible with the war and our financial crisis; look at the state of the world we live in! Well, I am an optimist! And, in this part of the world today, the sun is shining and gentle breeze is blowing from the south! It speaks to me of new and fresh beginnings. The light of the birth we just celebrated drapes over the earth offering a promise – of hope.
We are in a new home in a new state and that calls for new beginnings and traditions. One of our first new beginnings was how we celebrated Christmas. We found a new church in Little Rock and celebrated Christmas Eve with our new Unity family! Also celebrating there for the first time was our new pastor. She had just arrived from Champaign Illinois and her first official duty was to officiate the Christmas candle light service. As our candles burned, we were each invited to bring the light of Christ into our heart center and fill our entire being with Christ’s light. It was pretty cool! After the service, we had an opportunity to talk with the pastor and her husband and found out she spent the first half of her life – In Eden Prairie, MN our old home town! We have so much in common and we look forward to getting to know each other!
After church, Jack and I were hungry. We had a half hour drive home ahead of us and nothing in the oven waiting for us. So, we stopped at a Chinese Buffet! Wasn’t there a movie about this! It was great, except that we ate too much! Every time the staff came to our table to check on us, they would wish us a Merry Christmas! With no one expecting us out of bed early on Christmas morning, we slept in late. After breakfast, we jumped in the car and headed to Benton. We were going to go hiking, but with Jack on call for work, we didn’t want to get too far away from civilization and the phone towers. Instead, we checked out the historic buildings in the city and scanned their energy! Arkansas actually saw some Civil War action and there were several buildings that are still standing from that era! We did a meditation at one of the buildings and had fun sharing our insights with each other! We were pleased we both saw a similar event. After a movie at the local theater, we headed home – this time a ham dinner was waiting for us in the oven.
With all of our loved ones - friends and family, so far away we will not be having our traditional New Year’s Eve Party this year. Instead we have decided to create a new tradition. Today I turned off the furnace and opened the windows! I decided to clear the energy of my home from the drama of the move and what ever else was lurking in the corners! Tomorrow night Jack and I will burn sage and clear our home of 2008 energy and welcome in 2009! Who knows, we may even go to bed before midnight! We are also looking at taking a river cruise to bring in the New Year. The piano player at our church is a local entertainer and he will be providing the music on the cruise. He invited the entire congregation to come join him!
A new year awaits us all. I pray this year brings you your heart’s desire, for our highest good. Blessings and Peace to you all!
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