Beginning Anew (I think?)

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Beginning Anew

I recently returned to formal education again after two years of work, independence and never planning to.

But this is only a beginning if I choose it to be for all this is happening within the existence of my life. I could not even call this a new stage in my life as stages have beginnings and ends, this is simply my Being. Right now I am Being at a university.

It is easy to think of life as stages but this is deceptive. Stages do not make us, we make the stages. We don’t enter into the stage of a new ‘Beginning Anew’ we begin anew and then, if we are so inclined, decide to call it a particular name later.

How many people suffer from this?

 

Making a resolution but not carrying through?

We make the changes by performing actions not declaring intentions.

So it is similar with our beloved Temple. We have seen our Family filled with Great News and Sometimes Sadness but all of these events are simply our Being.

We never Begin Anew because we never stop moving. Lets Be, lets take our troubles and our achivements in our stride, lets see where it takes us.

Comments 8

  1. Wescli Wardest
    Well said. :D Thank you.
  2. Alexandre Orion
    A most fitting message, M. Life doesn't pass by episodes with definite beginnings and endings ; it is we who envisage the 'net' of which divides and contains the 'wiggles' of an indivisible process ...

    Thank you ! :-)
  3. Mareeka Theodore
    10-4 . .
  4. Randall Bainbridge
    I agree. In the tarot decks, the Major Arcana "Death" represents the ending of something and the birth of something new. Either way, it is the Being who lets part of their life end and let something else begin. So many times we never let ourselves just be and enjoy what we have, even if it is ending or restarting. Thank you for the message!
  5. Lee Ross
    Simple and effective, Thank you :)
  6. Llama Su
    I simply told myself last year, I was going to have a good year the following year, no fighting with my loved ones and being angry, I feel I accomplished that, 98%... This coming new year, I have the same expectations, the higher the expectations, the more disappointed I may be if I do not follow through, so I keep it simple...
    Thank you for the sermon.
  7. Alexandre Orion
    "Tomorrow in the offices the year on the stamps will be altered;
    Tomorrow new diaries consulted, new calendars stand;
    With such small adjustments life will again move forward
    Implicating us all; and the voice of the living be heard:
    "It is to us that you should turn your straying attention;
    Us who need you, and are affected by your fortune;
    Us you should love and to whom you should give your word."
    ~ Philip Larkin

    :-)
  8. Adam M. Dumas
    good sermon I liked the illustration its so true.

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