Welcoming the New

New Earth Beckons (12)

The new is constant whether we recognize it or not.

Quite literally, with every breath we are inhaling new — new vitality.

Inherent within new vitality is new opportunity — new opportunity to experience, and to enjoy.

For very young children everything is new as they explore their environs — with boundless energy, curiosity and enthusiasm.

Implicitly, they are “welcoming the new”.

How much of this welcoming way-of-being do we retain?

Every day, there is a new dawn.  Every day, there is a new sunset.  And in between sunrise and sunset there are new possibilities, hence new-ness to be welcomed.

New beginnings are within the cyclical nature of the days and the moon cycles and the seasons — and Nature’s year, expressed within the cultural context as a calendar year.

Now, on the first day of the new calendar year, we stand at a threshold welcoming the new.

A new gateway has been opened, within the sequential counting of days and months and a year, and we enter — both welcomed and welcoming.

Our welcomes can be multi-faceted and unlimited — new clarity, new insight, new opportunity, new expression, new accomplishments, new friends, new appreciation, new contributions, new solutions, new savoring.

Welcoming the new is a way-of-being that holds great power, as it also connects us with our own youthfulness — the child within who remembers the joy of discovery and welcomes each day as a time to play.

That has not changed, really.  However, grownups tend to forget.  Where there has been a forgetting there can be a remembering.

Do enjoy welcoming the new!

The included photographic image is by James DeMers from Pixabay.