What shall we pray for in the New Year? What shall we intend? What shall we leave behind, let go of, release? What shall we open our hearts and minds to?
In a few hours, we will, as a human race, feel the closing of one year and the opening of a new one. As a human race, we have constructed this schedule of days and nights, months and years, so that after about 365 days or 12 months, we end one year and begin another.
As a human race, we consider this a significant occasion, one in which we can more consciously and deliberately make changes. We feel more motivated to make such change since it is an occasion that we are all going through collectively as a human race. It is a globally significant occasion. And so, in that global energy field of movement, of transition, each one of us feels within us a stronger urge to make a change on an individual level and in a personal way.
So what is this change that we each wish to make? What is it that we want to be different? Perhaps we want more of something and less of another. Perhaps we want nothing at all of something. Perhaps we want a different direction, a different way of using our time, a different way of relating to ourselves and one another.
Of course we can want all of this at any time of the year, but the fact that all of us across this planet are going through this transition, this ending and this beginning together, gives this time, this occasion a slightly different feel about it. For many of us, it is more than a slightly different feel, it is a significantly different feel and we don’t want to squander this opportunity, this momentous occasion when a large portion of the human population is going through this transition together. It is an exciting feeling and it can be intimidating. We don’t want to miss this opportune moment, we don’t want to squander it.
The good thing is, even if we did ‘squander’ it by being ill-prepared or unsure or disillusioned for whatever reason, in truth, EVERY MOMENT presents us with the same opportunity, the same invitation into the field of infinite possibilities. So, we needn’t work ourselves anxious over this. However, if you are feeling the desire to make the most of this occasion, then allow yourself to do so, without fear or anxiety or guilt or doubt but with openness, childlike excitement and glee, with childlike ‘not knowing’ and innocence (in essence).
Take the time to allow your thoughts to settle. Just let them drift away like clouds or let them sink to the bottom like mud in a glass of muddy water. And in their place, see and feel instead the radiance of the blue sky, the imperturbable, limitlessness of the blue sky or the clear, sparkling water that is revealed as the mud settles.
Keep the door of your heart wide open for this is where Infinite Intelligence or God or Love is most easily and clearly heard. And listen. Just listen. Not for anything in particular but for whatever there is. This is a most radical act of love. To not know yet care fully at the same time. It is indeed a most exhilarating and holy space to be in.
If you are prepared to do this, you will feel, even if you do not rationally understand it, the design of your life within all of life. It is a state of being in which no human attribute can present limitation, not age, not ability, not history, not culture, not circumstance. No thing at all can present a limitation. This is the limitless field of possibility and this is the only state of being that God, Love or Infinite Intelligence knows.
Let us not presume to know but let us surrender to what is known beyond our thinking, beyond our beliefs and opinions, beyond our insistence on what is ‘right’ and ‘good’ and ‘necessary’.
When many of us allow ourselves to enter into this holy place, imagine the energy field that is made possible! Imagine the collective vortex that we might get drawn into together! What is possible really will be beyond our imagination! What is possible will far, far exceed our knowing, our learning, our habitual ways of thinking and being! And yet, we have the facility of imagination, intention and allowing to stir us from where we are to where we could be. So, let’s use that facility but let us use it innocently. In other words, let us not presume to know but let us surrender to what is known beyond our thinking, beyond our beliefs and opinions, beyond our insistence on what is ‘right’ and ‘good’ and ‘necessary’. Instead, let us offer an intention such as this:
May the design of Infinite Love structure our hearts and minds. May we yield completely and unreservedly to it. May we drop all resistance to it. May we allow ourselves to be guided by it, in thought, word and action. May our faith in it be unshakeable. May we feel the unity of all beings, every form of existence, so that we honour and value each equally. May we say again and again and again: The way of Love always and in all ways. Amen.
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