Even as we look forward to a New Year, the Pandemic rages. The situation here, in L.A. County hospitals, has reached a incomprehensible crisis. Today there are exhausted emergency workers, medical staff, custodial and cleaning staff, public health staff and government officials, along with patients and families who continue to stay the course, to make decisions and use their judgement and experience to save lives and regain the ground of healthcare. I encourage you to offer them and others around the country your spiritual support as prayer, affirmation, and light.
Today is New Year's Eve. It's been a very long and exceptionally difficult year. But exceptional times push us to new understanding and discoveries and at the same time can clarify our values and bring into focus our priorities and goal. These are also times when we can feel deep gratitude for the good that is in are lives right now, even while in upheaval. I hope you have found that has happened to you. Depending on your experience, it may possibly take years to personally process this year of the Covid-19 Pandemic; we expect for all of us that our perspective, the impact and the meaning will shift over time as our lives and our world unfolds. But before any celebration of the new, we traditionally let go of the old. There are many reviews of the collective events of 2020 in the news and in various formats online and as part of the collective, they may help you reflect and release the ways in which you have been connected to this collective experience. Most of us over the next few days will review and reflect with those closest to us our shared experiences.
But your personal experience as an individual defines specifically you. I urge you to also take time today to turn within, in silence and stillness to gently review your year of the Pandemic. The time is ripe for release and forgiveness. You won't release and forgive everything today, but you will begin and you will feel the healing that lies underneath and the stirrings of new life. By midnight, wherever you are, it will no longer be 2020.
Happy New Year! (Susan Nettleton).
For thoughts on How to Let Go, follow the link to an article by Larry Morris.