DAILY Posting the last Breathe of 2014, waving farewell to 12 months of living, leaning back before plunging in, time to ask, “What have I learned? What was the cost in life-energy? Was it energy well spent?”
Dealing with these twisty times takes its toll. It teaches and refines our vocabulary. It offers un-expected solace, redemption, and gifts, along with the hard-scrabble lessons and loss. It is all about balance, the act of mitigating and refining the actions and point of view between: ambition and disappointment; memory and beginnings; rest and willfulness; honesty and charm; despair and anger; solitude and friendship; vulnerability and strength…to name a few.
Before we can balance, we must see. We must be able to perceive without judgment exactly what is. If we see every wounding as a fatal flaw from which we cannot escape, then we cannot. We remain twisted, unable to straighten up and fly right. Our lives take place as our viewpoint dictates. Unfortunately, most of this view is buried deep within unconscious waters. It may be that some of the great work of the New Year is to clear away old POV’s. Releasing our contortions requires the gristle of honest appraisal, a dedicated daily bone-stacking of step by step forgiveness, and a robust heart for self-acceptance. Without these practices, despair immobilizes the body. Life energy is spent.
Once we perceive the tortured twists and cracks, light enters. Leonard Cohen got that right! There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.
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