It’s here, another New Year’s Eve. Boy, our world has sure changed in a blink of an eye the last couple years. Really, it has been coming for a few but the hard lessons are getting intense my friends within us and around the world. I am reminded of the Bible verse, “all these are the beginning of birth pains”, Jesus spoke of. I know that the earth seems to be upset, especially nature. Working disasters, I have seen them get worse and worse and more frequent. I am over 50 now so my thoughts are more about what can I do while I am still here to help support what I really believe in which is peace, joy and love. We cannot always live in that zone but we can strive to be in the middle of chaos and have peace. I didn’t think it was possible but when I was in the middle of the dark night of the soul I would call it when I was younger, I prayed that I would be able to stand in the middle of a tornado and be calm in the center.
Little did I know that would look like my work now. Be careful what you wish for right? I am able to walk into a disaster area and stay calm when all the emotions are running high. That does not mean I don’t get stressed with my own deadlines and work. I do but when I am standing in front someone that has lost everything, I can be calm for them. I can only do that because I have done and keep doing my own work of evolving. I say it all the time, “Everyone wants to be spiritual and evolve but no one wants to do the work that is required.” The work to evolve your soul is not an easy path but the rewards are great and really the only one that matters. Peace.
Lots of negative things happening, lots of negative things have always happened. Is it more or less, I do not know. I can only look at the now. What is in front of you and in you? That is what you need to look at. Stop focusing outside, go within. See what disaster you need to deal with in yourself. Clearly with the way the world is, everyone has a lot of work to do.
I ask my higher self this year what were the words for me this year:
Happiness.
Health.
Hope.
I offer these to you. Just like a tree grows, what you focus on will also grow. Are you going to focus on how jacked up everything and everybody is? Or how separated and evil? Or will you focus on the good, the balanced and be grateful for what you have at this very moment?
I also offer a response that I saw from Neale Donald Walsch on Facebook when a commenter had asked about how she could diminish evil in the world. Here is his response:
“My gentle friend, I do not think we can diminish the evil in the world by something in particular that we are doing. I believe that the solution arises out of what we are Being.
By that I mean, by what we choose and actively intend to BE in any and every given moment. From that State of Being will arise an energy that will be projected into the world we touch…and, depending on the State of Being we have chosen, the world around us will begin to reflect that.I was told in CWG that the physical world is a mirror. It reflects back to our civilization what our civilization projects into it. So the way we can “diminish the evil in the world” is to project into the world what we choose for the world to Be.I know that this may sometimes seem fruitless, but it would amaze you how much of a difference this can make. People who have lived their lives constantly choosing a State of Being love, patience, understanding, wisdom, clarity, and simple goodness very often experience surprising returns of that energy in their daily encounters.Whole groups of people deciding to do this can, in fact, help to diminish the evil in the world in a very real way. Gandhi put this whole idea perfectly when he invited us to “be the change you wish to see.”
What a wonderful New Year’s Resolution that would be! ;o)”
The sun will rise and the trees will keep growing tomorrow on New Year’s Day, how will you choose to rise, evolve and promote peace in 2022?..let me know….xoxo