Happy New Year!

Here we go again; making resolutions and beginning life anew! It used to seem silly to me for every day is a day of a new year since it's been one year ago each day is revisited. Yet in the passing of winter solstice it is the natural cycle that flows within us to the marching of more daylight hours, the coming of spring, and the promise of brighter days ahead. There is much to be said that we choose the nature of our destinies, and as chance would have it, our luck follows in parallel with the path we lead. Be it far easier to fall in complacency than to rise in virtue, and wisdom is essential in knowing what is right and true, which is often more difficult. Bad habits are hard to break, yet if you see the glory in honest effort, nobility, and honor; then happiness is found in the struggle and challenges along the journey of a higher calling. I sadly acknowledge there is much evil in the world, but we can rise above it in knowing that it is wrong to gain from the loss of others, and that it is only right to profit at the price of your own effort. We cannot ignore evil, but must strive to understand it so that it can be dissolved by the power of love. Having said that, to illustrate just how great of a force that love really is, I share with you my prayer written some time ago, it was in response to the Virginia Tech massacre:

I offer my prayer to the souls of victims of any act of terror. To the souls blackened by the twisted hatred of evil that leaves in its wake the unbearable pain of eternal torment and despair. Wretched is thee who so woefully violate and extinguish the life from the innocent and the promising youth. My prayer goes out to the active dreamers manifesting productive achievement. To those who begin from the blank slate of potential and fleet to the actualized reality from their struggle to prosperity. To those who seek higher paths of virtue with love and passion in the ascending transcendence of a growing heart and mind. To every weary soul of a higher calling that is suddenly swept away by the hand of descending darkness attempting the agonizing destruction of all that is good and hopeful.
I pray not to a deity, but to ourselves, to humanity; that the best within us does and will forever overcome the tragedy of evil. I rise up, not in anger, but in forgiveness; not to the madman committing violent acts against humanity; but in lieu of corruption and complacency, to the society of man that allows such evil to flourish. Of what purpose is that of the wretched who too often illuminate the infinite darkness of their malice upon the sufferings of man. I dare not say the unthinkable depravity of life’s love forever lost while blood is spilled in the inexorable decline to the bottomless pit of tormenting shame and fear. Instead I proudly follow the rising calling of a light so joyous and bright it lifts all conscious beings to the heights of ever ascending, purifying love.
Let us rejoice in the glory of all our efforts to rise above the temptations to the darker side of nature. Though we are but mortal specks in the eternal landscape of the ever evolving universe, uniquely we are spiritual energy trapped within the confines of physical reality. In abstract reality our eternal souls of ethereal spirit often reaches out to the unreachable realm of eternal bliss. Thought it may be forever unattainable as we strive to enter such a place that does not exist; a heaven without recourse, it is in our journey that opens our hearts and souls to acceptance and peaceful serenity. I offer my prayer to the strength and beauty of the most powerful force in nature, for it may seem to stray too far from the nature of man. My prayer goes out to all that aspire to enlightenment and virtue, to all that feel the energy of life and the binding awareness of all existence; to the one single constant that defies all forces against it, overcomes and strengthens from all obstacles and the powers determined to destroy it, and rises above all that is evil. I offer my prayer to love.

And so it goes, the procession of life and our allusion to time, which seems to tug at our aspirations with lingering dwellings from the past and apprehensions of the future. Though it is good to learn from the past and set goals for the future, let us not forget the present and be completely in it. There is nothing more pure than this moment, which will always be here, with or without us, forever now.

Let your youthful spirit come out and play, to celebrate; as if drifting on a cloud of endless delight in the beautiful expanse of the universe. Be forever free, confined by nothing but the natural laws of reality and the timeless dance of existence. Feel the joyous energy from within your soul and throughout all that is. Make it your New Year's resolution to experience this higher sense of living each and every moment of each and every day.

Happy New Year!