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“In this new year, may you have a deep understanding of your true value and worth, an absolute faith in your unlimited poten-tial, peace of mind in the midst of uncertainty, the confidence to let go when you need to, acceptance to replace your resistance, gratitude to open your heart, the strength to meet your chal-lenges, great love to replace your fear, forgiveness and compas-sion for those who offend you, clear sight to see your best and true path, hope to dispel obscurity, the conviction to make your dreams come true, meaningful and rewarding synchronicities, dear friends who truly know and love you, a childlike trust in the benevolence of the universe, the humility to remain teacha-ble, the wisdom to fully embrace your life exactly as it is, the understanding that every soul has its own course to follow, the discernment to recognize your own unique inner voice of truth, and the courage to learn to be still.”
~ Janet Rebhan

Someone in the church sent this to me on New Year’s Day. What a great way to begin the New Year!
I hope you do not read this or things like it as an assignment, or as a standard by which you are judged. I hope you will keep your mind from turning it into one or more “resolutions” as a program for self-improvement.

It is not about your will at all. It as about God’s will, which is “good news for all the people” and peace in knowing God’s love. If you can’t trust an angel, who can you trust? This is who you really are, now. Your deepest truest self, your soul, is at this moment and always resting in God, who is love. As Paul says to the church in Rome, “I am absolutely convinced that there is nothing that can stop God from loving us.”

The only thing to do is to begin to wake up to that reality with patience and great compassion for yourself. Usually, the waking up involves some growing up and cleaning up, but that too is only so we can deeply and fully know the forgiving, transforming love of God.

So let us begin again to know who we really are in God’s love.