EVERYTHING NEW


"I am ready for my next thing to do, everything different, everything new."

Daniel Nahmod 

Image what it would be like to be a baby chick still inside it's shell, just waiting to break out of confinement. There you are, cramped inside the shell just waiting to emerge into the unknown. Tentatively you start tapping on the outer wall. You tap harder, and slowly you break out. There you are in a new environment, feathers still damp from your old experience. You wiggle and stretch you wings, take a few wobbly steps, ready for your next thing to do.

As humans, we are a little bit like that baby chick. Events happen in our lives that cause us to try something new, to resurrect into a new experience. Losing a loved one; changing jobs; moving to a new state, into a new home; or recovering from an illness; something different, something new--all can cause us to freeze up, or all those same moments may eventually waken us to new possibilities.  Ernest Holmes reminds us to look at obstacles as stepping stones. My own divorce in my forties opened a new path for discovering my Spiritual home.

The words to Daniel Nahmod's song continue, "Bring it on Everything new, Everything different, Everything new". Each day we wake up is a resurrection to new possibilities. The older I get, the more I realize what a gift it is to embrace the day and give thanks for it. What is your next thing to do?

"When we think of the task ahead, we can look at it from an inward view--in other words start with ourselves--which is actually where everything starts. Love, peace, joy, prosperity, all start within us and spiral out...If we look at the task from the inward view, most people will agree that when we are peaceful within we are peaceful without."

Sandra Lindsey Smith,                           --Life's Garden of Weekly Wisdom

What is your next thing to do? Are you ready for a change, something different, something new? the possibilities are limitless.

Love, and light

Rev Sandy Smith 






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