The New Year
Posted on | January 1, 2010 |
It’s the traditional greeting - Happy New Year! And very lovely it is too.
Yet it does demand we take it seriously. We tend to say ‘I hope you have a Happy New Year’ which seems to suggest that happiness comes from elsewhere and may, or may not, alight upon you this year if only your luck is good.
I’m the last person to disparage luck, believe me, and yet I’m also aware that the greeting could more usefully be heard as a directive: Make Sure You Allow Happiness into Your Year. It asks us to put happiness first. Not money, or success or acquisitions, but Happiness.
So - are you going to welcome more happiness into your life? Are you going to let go of old grievances and worries and obsessions? Only you can do that part. Luck, no matter how good, can’t do it for you.
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January 3rd, 2010 @ 5:59 pm
Allan,
I agree wholeheartedly.
Happiness is a choice.
To remind myself of that every year at this time I reread Fra Giovanni Giocondo’s Christmas Eve letter which he wrote to a friend in 1513. In it he reminds his friend the countess to take heaven and to take peace. Here is my favorite excerpt from it…
” Life is so full of meaning and purpose, so full of beauty beneath its covering, that you will find earth but cloaks your heaven. Courage then to claim it; that is all!
But courage you have, and the knowledge that we are pilgrims together, wending through unknown country, home.”
Yes, Allan, you are right, we all need to take happiness, to take heaven, to take peace.
Happy New Year,
Peace and Blessings,
Jean M.