027_Thanks 2020

As we come to the close of 2020, how will we hold it in our hearts and memories? There is no question that part of that will be how we met with changes and happenings beyond our control.  

We’ve all faced the changes, but in what way? Will it be filed as one of hardship and challenges, or will we think of it as a time of rising resilience and fortitude? Of greater awareness of our shared being, our global community as one organism, and of opening our limited view of personal safety and opinions to include how our choices impact the whole?

Will we look at it as one of loss or growth? What have we gained? 

As we say goodbye to 2020 and say yes to 2021, what do we need to let go of, grieve, forgive and accept the lessons born of change and challenge?  

In so many ways, 2020 has been a rebirthing of a new paradigm of living, of connecting and experiencing creativity in new ways. Like Marvel’s character, daredevil, our senses have been heightened. 

Perhaps we’ve become acutely aware of the little joys that we’ve taken for granted in the past with new appreciation, and have learned the art of appreciating the moment before us just as it is, now. Choosing to practice mindfulness  — accepting and appreciating our aliveness, seeing how we can extend that energy forth. 

We’ve learned to pause and turn within, to be more deliberate in questioning our automatic resisting and reactions to what happens. To let go of our resistance and remember we are love. Taking the seemingly broken pieces of our lives and filling them with gold. 

Like the art of Kintsugi; where we recognize our shared  history and visibly incorporate the gold or love repair into the new piece instead of disguising it. Our 2021 container will be woven with the attitudes we’ve chosen. Let it be golden with honesty, love and union.  

Our so-called flaws are our gateway to creating the beautiful diversity interwoven in the universal tapestry of life. This is perfection.  Not the good/bad, right/wrong judgments. But the transmutation of them to see our universality. 

If we just feel into the energy of the changes in which we’re invited to participate, we see where our judgments limit us. As we open and accept, allowing ourselves to transformed by it, we become gold artisans.

Each moment is precious. 2020 has given us the gift of presence in a new way. Time and routine has slowed enough for us to feel our truth as well as our self-assigned limitations and translate those moments through love.

Think of three things; attitudes, fears, judgments you want to leave in 2020. What are three gifts you’ve received in 2020; accepting and loving, more fully appreciating. The small things, the way you’ve become more mindful, generous and aware. 

Let’s lay 2020 to rest, awake to new possibilities and interconnectedness born of our shared experience accepted and loved. 

Have a yummy week and a yummy day!