Christmas is over. We did it. The frenzied pace of shopping, parties and presents is tapering down to a more manageable level. It's time to exhale 2008 and inhale 2009. Time to breathe.
Sure, it's time for re-thinking, renewing, re-focusing our life goals, starting new endeavors, phasing out old habits, and re-envisioning what could be. But as we bridge the gap between Christmas and New Year's, let's not forget to breathe deeply from the bottom of our feet to the top of our head. And not just physical air, but spiritual air as well. Let's breathe in new mercies, grace, forgiveness, joy, wonder, strength, purpose, discipline, integrity, candor, generosity, prayerfulness, kindness, self-control, godliness, justice, compassion, creativity, beauty. Let's breathe out the same. Really. Let's exhale these qualities. Exhale them in the way we walk and talk and relate and create and live and, well, breathe...
Happy New Year. 2009. It's here. Waiting for us to breathe our very lives into it.
