We've turned a page on paper, a construction of eternity. We're making promises to exercise, diet, cast off negative influences, and accumulate wealth. In three months, we may be a few pounds lighter, hanging with the same crowd, and paying off the balance on the gifts we purchased for friends, families, and ourselves.
How will we feel in that future, looking back at our resolutions and intentions today?
I believe that how we change is more often a matter of small, daily decisions, intentional or inspired, remembered and repeated. We change when we breathe deeply each morning, knowing we'll be traveling to work under relatively safe circumstances. We grow when we smile at someone standing in the aisle of a bus; or yield our place in line to someone with fewer items; or donate a bit of clothing that we were keeping for a special occasion that hasn't come. We blossom when we settle in place at the end of the day, ticking off two or three, ten or twenty, or just one moment for which we are truly grateful. We gain wisdom when we grieve and persevere on our path without someone who loved us. We gain strength when we acknowledge our challenge to another heart. We transform any moment by looking at it, even in past tense, with Love. We begin NOW, regardless of the numbers on the calendar, the candles on the cake, or the writing on the wall. May this day become a Happy NOW, moment to moment, day to day, heart to heart, life to life.
NOW is when
a New Year
a New Day
a New Moment
a New Love
a fresh start
a bright idea
a vision
a change
a miracle
Life
Begins.
What will the next
524,600 minutes become
if we share this one,
NOW?
DonnaMarie Fekete, January 2016
How will we feel in that future, looking back at our resolutions and intentions today?
I believe that how we change is more often a matter of small, daily decisions, intentional or inspired, remembered and repeated. We change when we breathe deeply each morning, knowing we'll be traveling to work under relatively safe circumstances. We grow when we smile at someone standing in the aisle of a bus; or yield our place in line to someone with fewer items; or donate a bit of clothing that we were keeping for a special occasion that hasn't come. We blossom when we settle in place at the end of the day, ticking off two or three, ten or twenty, or just one moment for which we are truly grateful. We gain wisdom when we grieve and persevere on our path without someone who loved us. We gain strength when we acknowledge our challenge to another heart. We transform any moment by looking at it, even in past tense, with Love. We begin NOW, regardless of the numbers on the calendar, the candles on the cake, or the writing on the wall. May this day become a Happy NOW, moment to moment, day to day, heart to heart, life to life.
NOW is when
a New Year
a New Day
a New Moment
a New Love
a fresh start
a bright idea
a vision
a change
a miracle
Life
Begins.
What will the next
524,600 minutes become
if we share this one,
NOW?
DonnaMarie Fekete, January 2016