I Accept the Newness of all Things

     Finally, after a very long winter, the weather feels like spring here in the Northeast.  Dr. Leonard Read, the founder of the Foundation for Economic Education (headquartered in the town where I went to high school), once said, “I have learned never to complain about the weather; it is my way of being thankful that God, and not the government, controls it.”  This winter tested that vow.

     We are also drawing close to Easter and before it, Good Friday, which is observed by a practitioner-led vigil at our Center.  This means we are getting close to the end of Lent.  (At Celebration Center, that means “lovingly eliminating negative thinking.”)

     It is no accident that Easter occurs in the spring.  This does not only have to do with the historical connection to Passover.  Both are times of renewal.  Both are openings of a renewed life — the blossoming of plants, the renewal of our lives through the rebirth of our consciousness, and as I wrote about last year, the return of the Boys of Summer.  A new season.  Rebirth, renewal, revitalization, restoration.  “Behold, I make all things new.”

     What is being made new in your life?  What is your “next thing to do”?  (Thank you, Daniel Nahmod.)  Is it a new job, school, better health?  Whatever it is, it only comes as we accept and remain open.

     Are you open for rebirth, renewal, revitalization, restoration in your life today?  Are you ready for that next step?  Can you look it in the face and know that it is yours?

     Charles Fillmore, the founder of Unity, said, “I fairly sizzle with zeal and enthusiasm as I spring forth with mighty faith to do that which ought to be done by me.”  He was 94 at the time.  This is the way I would like to age — I have said many times that I plan to die young, at a VERY advanced age.

     So we open ourselves in treatment, knowing that whatever is next is simply the greater unfolding of God’s Life in, as, and through us.

     There is only One Life.  That Life is god’s Life.  That Life is perfect.  That life is my life now.  It is the life of each and every one of us, in all, as all, through all.

     ll that that Life is, It is as me and as each of us right now.  It is expressing abundant wholeness in every way.  That abundant wholeness being the Truth of God, it is the truth of us also.  We are that.  I am that.

     And so, I accept spring.  I accept Good Friday and Easter.  I accept a new season and the chase that it brings.  I embrace these things.  I open myself to  rebirth, renewal, revitalization, restoration.  I know that the ever greater is unfolding as and through us here and now.  I accept the newness of all things and the newness that is happening in my life and in the life of all of us.   I give thanks for what was, I eliminate negative thought from my world, and I move forward to the newer and greater, abundantly.

     I am thankful for the newness, the sweet smell of life all around, the adventure, the fuller expression that is the spring expressing as and through us now.

     In that gratitude, I simply let go, open to the new, and know that as I open to it, it is done, well and abundantly.

And SO it IS!