A new beginning is here, we are starting 2010 and there will be a new hue to you as you step in with your resolutions in tow. Tell yourself about them and enjoy what they will bring in return. They are precious and can certainly be readapted as you find out more about the possibilities of realising them this year. Look at your world and love it no matter how discoloured or how sparkling it has become: it’s yours. Repainting, repairing and remodelling are a good way to fill in time when we happen to be motivated or idle. It can be plenty of fun at the same time.
The excitement with anything new is the energy, the new breeze that comes with it. There is often a little bit of “old” in everything new. Have you noticed that also? We go on from where we were before, so quite naturally the new grows out of the old. In that way our perspective becomes broader . The outlook to more facets of our experiences, the way we view events and observe people will adjust. What we have not tried yet but want to turns into a new challenge. We love a challenge! There is a thrill in contemplating a continuous momentum in slightly unusual twists and turns, like when the treetops move with the wind. We know the wind and we know the tree, but we can’t foresee each tree’s vibrations as they are dependent on different variables. We can get carried away by just watching and it’s fascinating.
A friend mentioned the other day that the Earth will stop tilting in two years’ time. Does it really? Is this important? It is quite obviously out of control for us and we will continue to flow with the Earth, whether it tilts or not. No planet stands still, right? And we all tilt, in one way or another. Are you standing still? How do you do that? Can you feel the movement better when you stand still? What is still and what moves? Nothing ever stands completely still and there is movement everywhere, anytime. Movement is energy, energy is waves, waves are sounds and sounds, like words, are light.
In the Bible we read that at the beginning there was the Word (John 1.1) and the Word was God. The word is associated with life and light in the same passage. Words of course carry energy as well, and not only in their meaning. So really, we cannot get away from energy and movement, either in us or external to us.
It is mesmerizing to watch a waterfall in the mountains or a river going downstream. Water can turn wheels, turbines, drive cars, drown us and so on. It has a remarkable power. In the little book Hidden Messages in Water, discussed in the October Newsletter of last year we learnt that we, as human beings, are seventy percent water. Imagine the power in one of us and the power when we join forces! Quite evidently, our strength is not only in our muscles or ideas. It follows that we have internal strengths we do not readily know how to use to our advantage. Let us think about it more and trust our body just as much as our mind.
You know the feeling of freefall when we jump off a board, down a slide, out of a helicopter or in a ski jump? It makes us feel free and light and we love the sensation. That is precisely what our internal energy wants to do also: burst forward, out into the world and generate more influence. Let’s let it happen more freely and let us not hinder our bodies or our natural drive to create! Trust is the key. We are vulnerable and trustworthy simultaneously when we have faith in ourselves and others.
I look forward to so many new events, activities and undertakings in this year. I wish us all success in our accomplishments and expect to share many with you all.
As a photo I invite you to look at The Beginning by Kathy Ostman-Magnusen
The story for this Newsletter is NEW BEGINNINGS by Dawn Dreyfuss
As the first fruits of spring tear off the noose of winters long days and dark nights, I throw off the grave clothes and look out of the cave I've grown so comfortable in.
The clouds are still evident over the horizon. They bring with them the promise of rain. I long for their cold wet touch. I gaze out my backdoor. There in the midst of green grass and petrified wood, I lose myself in the eyes of the windflowers. They live so close to Your Heart. They have a beauty and fragrance I have come to know so well. Only You could create such magnificence.
Oh, if only I could understand the faith of the hummingbird. She sits on her perch and belts out a song of joy and exuberance. She has not a care in the world. Her only desire is to let creation know that she is alive and well.
In this season of new beginnings, I will strive to be like the hummingbird. As she watches and waits on You alone, I too, will sing a new song. I will open my mouth wide and praise You. For You alone are my joy and salvation.
In love and light
Mariana
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