From the Editor's Computer
We will open the book. Its pages
are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is
called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day. ~ Edith
Lovejoy Pierce
Happy New Year! Can it really be 2013 already?
We are entering a new year with endless
possibilities, opportunities and adventures ahead of us.
How many of you have already pretty much
filled your calendar to overflowing for the year? Is there any free time or flexibility in your
schedule, or is it as jam-packed and out-of-control as last year?
We just finished a chapter in our
lives. 2012 has ended and we’ve turned
the page to the next chapter - 2013 - and the pages ahead of us.
Unfortunately, we humans have a tendency to
try and jump ahead and read a few chapters down the line. We don’t want to be on the page we’re on,
plus we think we need to know what happens later.
We don’t know what is in store for us this
new year, and all the planning and scheduling in the world won’t reveal the
answer. We can schedule and plan all we
want, but there is no guarantee that we will do any of it.
That is because life unfolds moment by
moment as it unfolds. The page ahead of
us blank, as are the subsequent pages.
Even the next line is blank. We
truly only know what will happen in our lives after it has happened.
This year, instead of racing around… pause. Let your life unfold, let your blank pages be
filled, not by frantic, mindless scheduling, but by embracing what life sends
you.
Beth
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