Hello 2014........

I bow to you 2014 with humility as you stand before me, big and looming.  I am not sure what you want from me or I from you.  You snuck up on me this year, I am feeling somewhat unprepared for your presence.  I needed more time, the house is messy, my papers are not filed, I've had the kind of visitors in my home that no one is happy to have, I haven't gotten enough sleep, nor collected my thoughts in preparation for you.  But despite all of that, you are here, and you are not patient, nor waiting for me to finish my preparations. 

You whisper to me, "shift gears now, you are ready, you just don't realize it" and while I might resist, I know you are right.  My struggle is to collect all of myself into the present moment.  The feeling of being "not fully present" warns me that I have left parts of myself either in the past or in my worries about the future and that feels like a key insight.  

I sigh both a sigh of relief and a disheartened sigh as I acknowledge my fragmentation.  My first project of 2014 must be to collect the lost parts of myself from the past and from the future.  As I write, I start seeing images of myself as an innocent little girl in a field with a basket picking up parts of myself.  I wonder if in fact it will be that easy to do.  The field is beautiful and filled with spring colors, it makes me think of hunting for Easter eggs.  Any little girl would enjoy that.  How then can I make this act of "collecting myself" and putting myself back together again (sort of like humpty dumpty) an enjoyable task?  I hear that little voice of yours again say "just acknowledge all the little places you left yourself, let that be a lesson for you in and of itself."  Hmmm, simply acknowledge all the little places that still trip me up, I can do that.

Thank you 2014, you have already been a teacher.

It may be post 2012, but it seems the A's of Ascension haven't really changed very much according to the wisdom in the voice of 2014. Awareness, Acknowledgment, Acceptance, Action, Ascension.   It's all I'm ready to do right now and if experience holds true, Inspired Action will rise out of the ashes of the fire of true acceptance of who and what I am today.