Beginners

“Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.”

               Meister Eckhart

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Really!?

Do I have to start over each day?

Isn’t once a year enough?

And I did that yesterday!  Really!

Alas,

We must always be dying and being born

We must always be letting go, and starting fresh

It is amazing how much stuff sticks to us

Like hay and branches and dog hair

On my beloved fleece coats and pants

We drag stuff along with with

Unnoticed

And unwanted

We need constantly

To de-fuse

With things unseemly

Unhelpful

Thoughts

Beliefs

Habits

Actions

Impermanence is not a bad thing

It is a gift

Our shifting world

Our psyche which reinvents itself moment by moment

Give us opportunities

To be reborn

To grab hold of what is new

And start again

2017 is gone

Yes there is residue

And gooey gross stuff we must still deal with

But it is gone

As is January 1, 2018

Today is today

And this day I will notice my thoughts

And accept the way I feel

And choose to do what I care about

Happy Dog is a lucky boy, he will get a walk

Bill the cat will watch as I go through a book on therapy

My cooking cupboard has already been cleaned

The next moment calls

And I will choose to do one thing that moves me toward what I value

Love, caring, compassion, generosity

And then that done, I will choose the next right thing

And so Sacred and I will stumble forward

Toward what is next

(and there is always a next)