Precipice
This is the last Wednesday of 2021. It’s snowing out and I am considering yesterday’s question posed by a friend, “What will 2022 bring to us?” Opening my mind and heart to what is, I land on precisely what every year brings to us. Evolution. Fate. Uplift. Demise. Worse. Better. Opportunity. Choice.
Remembering the past few years, we (my friends and most of the world) were practically fever-pitched exuberant to welcome 2020. By year’s end, we were in general exhaustion and determined gratitude for 2021 to finally begin. It has been natural to be excited for yearly completions to end and look forward to upcoming renewal and fresh beginnings. Yet, I sense the step into 2022 is being met with a lot of trepidation.
Once upon a time, I existed among the world of fear. It was a ‘normal’ life with no conscious awareness ‘fear-based’ and ‘love-based’ were a thing, nor that I had — and was about to make — a choice between the two. It was simply, life. When the words, “I just don’t live in your world anymore,” came out of my mouth, the sound, enormity and calming normalcy sent a reverberating shockwave through my body. All I could do in the moment was physically turn and put that world of fear to my back.
I was raised in a love-based world. Within that existence, an element of terror within that world showed up when I was young, stayed around for a few years, then left as quickly as it started. All the while — before, during and after — the surrounding love was stable and very strong. The combination was a foundation that blinded me to living with someone else’s world of fears as an adult while thinking I was immersed in a world of love. It was when the fear moved to overpower, separate and strip away the love knew as real that I met my line-in-the-sand. My voice and whole body responded before my conscious mind understood the scope of what was happening. Choice was made.
You have an entire buffet of choices to choose from in 2022. All of our norms have been shattered over the past 24 months. The pieces of what was will never come back together as they had been before. We (people and systems) are in reconfiguration. It’s not just a new year, it’s an opportunity be You without the old patterns that no longer serve you.
As you step through this evolution, if the fear (in yourself or from others) moves in to overpower, separate and strip the love of life you have, turn your back on it without hesitation. Doing so, you’ll align, or re-align, yourself with the massive community in this world that still believes in, lives in and expands in love-based action and being.
2022. Evolution. Fate. Uplift. Demise. Worse. Better. Opportunity. Choice.
