...if I've got it correct (...thanks to one of my favorite Anglican priests who is at Cambridge in the UK...Thanks, Maggie!), the 12 Days of Christmas began on December 25th and go until Epiphany, January 6th.
...any way, today, taking a break from an important project I need to have finished toward the end of January, I was amused (...better late than never...) to find that I was about the 7,832,394th person to watch this...a YouTube of the times
...which brings me back to one of the more telling lines in the splendid musical "Fiddler on the Roof" when Tevye says to his wife Golda, as their daughters are slipping into the "modern" moments of their lives and leaving the past of their parents behind..."Times are changing, Golda." We often say that in our home, as changes show up...we consider them...and then make the necessary ones.
...indeed...we humans need to be committed to keep changing with time
...or time will, unfortunately, pass us by and we'll wonder where we are in the grand scheme of things
...we all have a past, for better or for worse
...we all have a future (...some ancient sage once reported that for we humans there is a future and a hope...)
...and there is a now...the present
...how will you live in today, the present, with your presence in all 8 dimensions of your own life, whether your situation is hard or soft, fairly regular or very uncertain, calm or chaotic?
...even if/when you were born in a barn (...of all the crazy places to begin a human life...but many births on this planet take place in even less than that these days...survival becomes quickly critical...)
...all of we humans have been designed and created for unique purposes...
...past...future...present...
...the truth is all living things have been created for unique purposes.......!
...what are some of your hoped for purposes for 2011?
...what are you hoping grows out of the uniqueness of you in the next 12 months? In all of us there is more to be discoverd and nurtured...as there is in all you those you know...live with...work with...play with...learn from and with.
...be alert to what needs nurturing in your own life...
...take action...
...live well into your own purposes for why you are here...
Live intentionally...by your sacred design...and experience what happens.
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