1.1.11
The New Year has dawned... I sense a shift in the energies... I meditate in the quiet, and silently ask for simple things, so reminiscent of prayers offered during the Winter Solstice : "Let me see what I must see. Let me hear what I must hear. Let me be what I must be. Let me know what I must know. Let me be more compassionate. Let me love more deeply..." On a day that is the Solemnity of Mary , I entrust so many to her care, loved ones, departed ones, and those in need... Paramahansa Yogananda offers this reminder from the first entry for the year in his Spiritual Diary: "With the opening of the New Year, all the closed portals of limitations will be thrown open and I shall move through them to vaster fields, where my worthwhile dreams of life will be fulfilled." I settle down with a cup of coffee to see what my Facebook friends have to say, and I come across this Old English Prayer, that one soul has posted, and it seems a dedication that is as good as any for...