I love it when my worlds collide. Well, sometimes it's unsettling and a bit mysterious, but I love it. I feel like it's God and the universe conspiring to help me make sense of things and reassure me that there is a greater plan at work. Naturally, there were some gifts from Dean's yoga class today. And one of the big themes was accepting where we are, not in a sense of complacency but in an act of peace - recognizing that there is a time for everything. Or, as the Byrds remind us, "to everything turn, turn, turn"...
And then I read a lovely prayer sent to me by my aunt...and it all just seemed to come together. Some of my favorite lines:
O God of all seasons and senses, grant us the sense of your timing to submit gracefully and rejoice quietly in the turn of the seasons. In this season of short days and long nights, of grey and white and cold, teach us the lessons of endings; children growing, friends leaving, loved ones dying, grieving over, grudges over, blaming over, excuses over...teach us the lessons of beginnings; that such waitings and endings may be the starting place, a planting of seeds which bring to birth what is ready to be born - something right and just and different, a new song, a deeper relationship, a fuller love - in the fullness of your time. O God, grant us the sense of your timing (~Ted Loder)
What a lovely prayer and meditation as we head into the new year...leaving 2012 behind us - joys, sorrows, challenges, opportunities, successes, failures, and all...and looking forward to 2013. Accepting everything in its time.
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This post was perfectly timed, E. Not just because it's New Year's Day, but just in general. Thank you (as always) for your wisdom.
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