As we head into the new year, it is easy for the mind to jump ahead and focus only on the future: what will we resolve to do differently in the year to come? What will this new year hold for us? etc... So on this, the last day of 2009, I ask that we give pause and reflect on the past year and look for closure where we can find it in the form of forgiveness towards others and towards ourselves. Why carry unnecessary pain and burden into 2010?
To help with this endeavor I'd like to offer a teaching that I'm borrowing from Aaron Neville. It goes like this (if you know the song to helps to sing along)...
“Everybody plays the fool, sometime. There's no exceptions to the rule, listen baby. It maybe be factual, it may be cruel, I ain't lying. Everybody plays the fool”
In other words, we all make mistakes sometimes – that's part of being human and part of the soul's natural evolutionary process. Sometimes our mistakes hurt others (and ourselves) and sometimes other's mistakes hurt us but the fact remains that we are all just doing the best we can at any given moment. We all act foolishly sometimes and it's okay. It's something that we share.
So today, I invite you to practice letting go of anger and resentment. Be compassionate. Make amends. To err is human, to forgive is Divine and isn't that exactly what we are... the Divine in human form? So embrace all aspects of this in yourself and in others – the right to make mistakes and the God given ability to forgive.
Lighten your load and head into 2010 with a heart ready to Love.
Happy New Year.
Love,
Sofi
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