{"id":171,"date":"2007-12-31T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-31T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/conversationswithgod\/2007\/12\/happy-new-year-everyone.html"},"modified":"2007-12-31T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-31T06:00:00","slug":"happy-new-year-everyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/conversationswithgod\/2007\/12\/happy-new-year-everyone.html","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year Everyone!"},"content":{"rendered":"

And so, we move into yet another year. Another cycle in the Grand Cycle that is Life Itself.
\nThey go so fast, these cycles. They go so fast. Have you noticed? Barely has one begun than it seems over. It was only yesterday, wasn\u2019t it, that we celebrated the New Millennium on New Year\u2019s Eve 2000? Now we celebrate New Year\u2019s Eve 2007, and the new era is old hat.
\nWhat happened to these last seven years?
\nAt the end of our lives, we will ask the same question about the whole of our existence. My wonderful friend Dennis Weaver, in his book All the World\u2019s a Stage<\/em>, talks about the death of his father, when he was at bedside, and one of the last things his dad ever said to him. Frail and dying, the older man whispered to his son\u2026
\n\u201c…it all goes so fast\u2026\u201d
\nDennis said those words never left him. His father\u2019s last lesson had an enormous impact on his life. He chose from that point on to live it to the fullest, to never step back from risk, to take the chances it was necessary to take to create a rich and full experience. Now Dennis, too, is gone from his physical expression. But his memory lingers on, and all the wonderful lessons he taught all of us who knew him.
\nPerhaps the greatest risk, the biggest chance, any of us will ever take is the risk of recreating ourselves anew in the next grandest version of the greatest vision ever we held about Who We Are. This, of course, is the purpose of all of life, if Conversations with God<\/em> is to be believed. And yet, this is the very thing that most people never do.
\nFor years \u2014 for decades \u2014 I was stuck in my Old Self, and I had no thought about moving to a new place or creating a New Me. I may not have liked everything there was to experience about the Old Me, but I knew who that was, I\u2019d become comfortable with it, and I was not going to change.
\nYet we are not our yesterdays, we are not our mistakes of the past, we are not our so-called failures and limitations. We are born again in every moment, and it is at times like the present moment \u2014 when we begin yet another year, another life cycle \u2014 that we can be especially empowered to step away from our old ideas, our old concepts, and our own experience of ourselves, and produce new ones. This is achieved simply though a decision to do so.
\nYet that decision takes courage. It takes an enormous willingness to shed our Old Selves and to reveal the New.
\nEvery time I think, yes, well, I\u2019ll get to that tomorrow, I\u2019m reminded of the words of Dennis\u2019 father.
\n\u201c…it all goes so fast\u2026\u201d
\nHappy New Year everyone. And let us all make 2008 the year that we rise to our highest self so far…a living, breathing representation of the Divine, an Individuation of Divinity in human form, as Aspect of Godliness, walking upon the earth and blessing it with every word, with every thought, with everything that we do.
\nIf we want a healed planet we must heal ourselves. Yet this need not be an arduous task. This need not be a difficult undertaking. This can be an experience of joy and of wonder, a moment, and a whole series of moments, in which we delight in ourselves…and in each other.
\nGod bless you all today, whoever and wherever you are. Let us move forward together into this New Year, happily creating a new day for humanity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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