INSPIRATIONS for 2012
It’s the much awaited new year of 2012. You may be considering how you can transform old patterns into ones that work for you now. The energies of this important year actually began several years ago and are now increasing exponentially within all life. This offers us unprecedented opportunities to make inner changes that align with the purpose of this powerful time. I believe the universal energies now expanding on our planet are all about opening the heart – both individually and globally. To some, this is such an awesome possibility that it becomes frightening, thus the misinterpretations about Dec. 21, 2012 being the day of global cataclysm. But as more of us have spontaneous experiences of heart openings in our relationships, meditations, and connections with every form of life, we are letting go of ego-fear based beliefs and allowing Spirit to be what we think of first. This year is about trusting the universal forces of creation to run our lives – no longer our wills, but the will of the greater intelligence, the only true power, and the absolute and eternal presence of God. I hear people now reconsidering God as neither punishing or rewarding, but rather as a Presence of a truer reality than we have believed until this moment in time. I think people have begun questioning the idea of a human-like super-parent presence who metes out terrible consequences if we’re naughty. Some of us are wondering how a negative power could also create the beauty, peace, serenity, and joy that we feel when we let go and let it be what it truly is. These experiences aren’t rewards for being good, but the way things are when we judge not, compare not, and interpret not from narrow-minded and closed-hearted perspectives.
Just as we may misinterpret one another’s words, intentions, behaviors, and actions, we may misinterpret God’s messages, intentions, and actions due to centuries of influence by an organized collective. Many spiritual and religious beliefs are incredibly beautiful, but others, when directed by fear and power over others, become the groundwork for this misinterpretation. Many believe we should fear God, when in truth, that’s just the thing that keeps us feeling separate from God. In a recent meditation, I asked Spirit, “What are you?” Its reply was “I am everything.” Even so, many might interpret that as proof that God is both good and evil if it is everything. But in the way I felt when I received this answer was all I needed to know: it’s my choice to believe in fear and cosmic retribution for my errors…or to believe that if God is everything, and I am part of everything, I must be inseparable from God. I realized that I am, as everything and everyone is, an emanation of the Divine Spirit flowing in and through and as all of life. My resolution for 2012 is to accept and celebrate that truth in every moment…and within you as well as myself. Happy, happy new year!
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May you be blessed in all ways.
