January, 2025

Every New Year is seeing through the trees dimly,
hoping for the best,
so we say, "Happy New Year!"
to encourage ourselves
in facing what's coming,
like it or not.

I take heart in knowing,
not what's coming,
but who is facing it.

That would be us, all of us.
And we have what it takes to do well
with whatever comes our way
during, and beyond, every New Year
that comes along.

It is only a matter of doing what's called for
in each situation as it arises
all year long,
year after year.

And, we have been doing that all our life.
We are well practiced in the art
of dealing with New Years,
and grubby, wrinkled, old ones.

If we have learned anything helpful--
and we have learned quite a bit of helpful things--
it is that the way we respond to what happens
is the swing point to what happens next.

We can strongly influence our future
by the way we receive and deal with our present.
And that remains so throughout the year every year.

We are not at all helpless before the portent of time.
We have a say in matter,
and what we say matters.

We have all we need to do what needs to be done
with and about everything that comes along.
Listening in the silence,
and looking for what our intuition has to say
in guiding our actions and leading the way
is like having an Elder Wand in hand
as we meet the future and impact what the days bring,
smiling as we think about
what they will bring forth in us
and what we will bring forth in them,
as we experience additional episodes 
in the Adventure of Being Alive.

Let's go do these things that await us
upon the field of action
in the good company of one another
day after day all the way!