New Year Ponderings

Pondering #1

I was pondering what it means to wish a "Happy New Year". I think I would like to wish a Happy Month? or maybe a Happy Week? Maybe a Happy Day? Maybe a Happy Hour, or maybe a Happy Moment?!

A Happy Moment!  That’s it!  Imagine being wished happiness 31,556,952 times – that’s the number of seconds in a year - so there you go: I wish each of you Blessings of Joy and the Sorrow that deepens your Joy, for thirty-one million, five hundred, fifty-six thousand, nine hundred fifty-two seconds/moments of 2024. Oh, I almost forgot. It’s a Leap Year, so add 86,400 seconds/moments of February 29, 2024 to that blessing.

Grand Total:  31,643,352 Blessing Moments!!!

Like I said, pondering sure feels like a more complete blessing when thought of in moments. Hmmmmm - what about nano-seconds or Planck time?

When we choose to live our lives focused on possibilities and blessing fruition, there really isn’t time for anything more. Got it?  So simple: choose to see all time as instants of

Blessing!

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Pondering #2

What is one thing you learned in the depth of your being this past year?

I learned that I can never undo the reality of who I am, who I was created to be, who I have co-created, uncovered, and chiseled out from beneath the limiting beliefs I piled upon myself. I am Pastor, Reverend Doctor - because I embody that Archetype.

When HeartSpace was morphing into a new identity, transitioning from a religious institution into a spiritual community, I suggested that we explore a different persona for me as spiritual leader, or coach. When I attempted to sign my email correspondence as "Coach

Carol" - I felt incomplete.

Now, as I ponder this, I realize why I felt incomplete. "Coach" is one of the numerous attributes of the Pastor/Reverend Doctor Archetype.  

Yes, I am coach and I am much more than that. I am a healer, lover, caregiver, supporter, brain-trainer, body builder/senior health instructor, Earth/grounds keeper, water protector, peace-maker, joy-bringer, vision holder, spiritual teacher, inspirational author, music maker,

pilgrim walker, Spirit seeker….

I find freedom in this awareness, this claiming of who I am today and still becoming.

I invite and encourage each one reading this blog to begin 2024, this year of blessing by taking a few moments, blessings moments, to ponder your personal list of gifts, attributes. It is inexhaustible!  It is also wise for the Wise-One to know how s/he shows up and what

the world requires of his/her birth. Who were you born to be for yourself and the world at this very time, this time which is like no other….and desperately needs you? What and

how are you releasing your Soul into its freedom to thrive?

Tell us about YOU in the Comments below.

Unleash Your Freedom,

The Rev. Dr. Carol