New Years Solutions not Resolutions

The new year has arrived.  It came in silent as a lamb with the intensity of a tiger. Like a baby being brought into existence with great anticipation and wonder of how it is going to look. What outcome will this new year have as it grows old like Father Time? I find it interesting that most I know have cursed the last year and look forward to this new one.  Almost as if the year itself has inflicted the trials, opportunities to stretch, and the issues of change and tribulations on those it has come in contact with. I guess I look at it slightly different.

I am so grateful for the previous year 2016.  I have had so many blessing bestowed upon me.  The blessing of struggling kids, the blessing of illness,the blessing of grand babies, the blessing of teens, the blessing of favorable job reviews, the blessing of financial challenges, the blessing of depression, the blessing of death, the blessing of change beyond measure.  You see what we experience is just news.  It is neither "good" or "bad" it is just news. The beauty of NEWS is I get to do with it what I will.  Sometimes I use the NEWS for excuses to be depressed, challenged, sad and hopeless.  Sometimes I use the NEWS as a motivator.  Of course, sometimes I rejoice in the NEWS.  How loved am I to have all this opportunity in one year?  Cam has taught me attitude of gratitude is the best possible tool for sorting our all this NEWS no matter what it looks like.

Believe me.... this kid has attitude.  He also has something else that I have learned is key to sorting my NEWS....absolutely no expectations.  I have been taught by this great child of mine that expectations only create limitations for me,  If I get NEWS and have an expectation then I put myself into a mode of being a victim. This is easily done for me in my NEWS of depression that keeps rewriting it's article upon my life every day.  I get a little frustrated with the lists of New Year Resolutions everyone makes.  See resolutions are like expectations.  I hear people say, I want to be healthy, skinny, rich, happy, loved, find love, exercise more, to quit smoking, spend more time with family, get more sleep....and the list goes on.  Oh how delusional all that we seek after.  Yes these are great things to WANT.....however, sometimes WANT does not create the outcome.  People miss their goals usually within the first 1-3 months of the new year then go onto being just as they ever were cursing the outcome of the old year in the end.  So here is a challenge.  Instead of new years resolutions how about new year solutions.  Techniques to create what we desire.  The only New Year Solution I deserve to have is to be a little better each day than I was the day before.  That simple.  If I am committed to just be better 110% then the ease in transition is extensive and great no matter how small or great the momentum.  I will create connections, love, growth and most of all change.  Perhaps change in my experience of the year 2017 that will not leave me bitter, just better..

 I  had an friend tell me that she prepared a lesson to teach and the class ended up teaching her the most.  She seemed disappointed that she may have negated her responsibility to uplift and teach as she felt that no one in her class that day got anything out of the lesson.  I informed her that sometimes teaching is about connection and without any words.  It was clear that she was delivering NEWS.  Educational NEWS about the spirit. NEWS about how things look in her life.  However, at the end of the lesson many remained to thank her for her contribution.  Some were in tears.  It was apparent that she taught with exactness and connected others.  This is what NEWS does.  Weather it be a death, a wedding, a birth, a change in status or a direct hit on information it connects....spirit to spirit and lighting all in whatever there is for their highest good.

So create connections in 2017.  Create momentum and create gratitude.  Create what Cam has created in the 7 years he has been here to deliver the Celestial NEWS of what matters....to strive to just be better than the previous day, previous moment.  One moment at a time....moment to moment....never stuck in expectation.  I can only desire that I can touch hearts and minds of those I come in contact with as he does, especially touching my own in that process  The world could use as much good NEWS as possible....be it...own it.....gift it....become it.