“One of my favorite spiritual teachers says her only prayer is ‘Show me.’ Show me what to do. Show me what life’s about. Show me.” ~ Martha Beck
Show me.
It’s in these two small words that the magic of a new year exists for me.
It’s the idea that we don’t need to have all the answers yet. We don’t need to have a plan or a goal or a timeline as soon as the clock strikes midnight. We don’t need to know how this year will unfold or who we’ll be at the end. We don’t need to hold ourselves to a promise we made when we were in the midst of heightened holiday emotions or societal pressure.
We can step into each year not knowing but being open to whatever the world has for us.
We can slow down enough to become aware of the signs all around us. We can give ourselves time to figure it all out. We can recognize that it’s okay if we never figure it all out.
The magic is simply being around to experience it all—to take in every single second of our painfully short, wondrously full, and fundamentally good lives. ~Nicole Cameron
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