A Message for the New Year
by Harriet Wagniere
We have all been trained to measure time in minutes, hours, days, months and years, and history requires that we remember dates–both world history and our personal histories.
We have birth dates, anniversaries, death dates. History classes teach us dates when battles were fought, laws passed, wars begun and ended, as well as national holidays ad infinitum.
In addition, every year we announce a new cycle of dates beginning with the New Year’s celebration and the purchase of a new calendar that this year starts on January 1, 2003.
Memorable Moments
But dates do not tell the true story of our lives. Our lives are marked by memorable moments of experience: the time we lost our first tooth, the time we experienced our first kiss, our first love, our first embarrassing moment, our graduation, marriage, birth of a child.
We remember special kindnesses, special teachers, and what they did to make them so special to us, particularly wonderful vacations, adventures, and a special journey of the spirit. We remember the time we read a book that opened our minds or changed a long-held idea. We recall well moments of great joy and great sorrow – and shared moments.
Dates?
Do we always remember the dates of these significant moments? The answer is, most likely not. But does that make them any less important in our lives? Of course not.
We measure personal experiences by cherished moments regardless of the date. Somehow, we always recall the experiences, and the feelings they evoked, but seldom the dates. We count our age by birthdays and years, yet that, too, is a false, or at least, superficial way of dating who we are. After all, it is just a number.
A New Year
2003 is a New Year in which we have the opportunity to experience many magical, memorable moments of our own making. We need to embrace the chance to create many moments of meaning, as well as memorable experiences. Whether we are seeking enlightenment, an exhilarating vacation, or simply a hug and a knowing that someone treasures us—–the opportunity to CREATE OUR EXPERIENCES AND OUR REALITY is ever present.
What we remember of 2003 should be more than dates; it should be magical moments of fun and friendship, love and light, courage and creativity, triumph and transformation, happiness and healing—–or anything else we desire.
Memorable Experiences
To mark your life by CONSCIOUSLY CHOOSING memorable experiences is so much more real than dates can ever be. You are the creator of your reality – Create a beautiful year filled with laughter and love or whatever else that is held deeply in your heart.
Make peace in your life. If we each create peace in our environment and in our families, it will spread to another and another until it reaches round the world in a chain of love and serenity – to create Peace on Earth.
May the Christ Consciousness of Love and Wisdom fill your “NEW YEAR” with marvelous moments to treasure your whole life long.
May Peace abound in your heart and on Earth!
Namaste’, Harriet