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Table of Contents

1. Finding Safe Refuge
2. Life as a Gift
3. The Power of Peace of Mind

With bitter-sweet poignancy, I write this newsletter to you at the beginning of another New Year. Seeing yet another year of life passing with seeming swiftness – yet, fully lived with much goodness and love - stirs this bitter-sweet pot. Traditionally this time is one of pondering the past year and reflecting upon how we might choose to live the incoming year.

I encourage you to indulge in this ritual which deepens and grows our being. Herein I would like to wish you three blessings which I have also chosen to further aspire to this New Year. Aspiring toward embodying these blessings seems a much kinder route than concretizing them into New Year’s Resolutions!

One of the gifts I have given myself and wish upon you is to look at our past and list what has been constant in life. No doubt many of you have faced many changes over the past year (career, relationship, location, illness, grief). We can find footing in the midst of difficult transitions by reviewing our past and looking for what remains constant. Take the time to list what remains constant in your life.

My list would include long-time love shared with friends and family; who I am and my path toward God, love, truth; a loving God that I’ve known most of my life; a safe home within the glorious country of Canada; work I have enjoyed that has supported me this life; the joy of uplifting music, reading, shows; walking, sitting, being in nature; being outdoors, swimming, camping, star-gazing; and writing, dancing, biking etc.. Paradoxically, some of these constants may change through unforeseen events like illness or death however, if we look deeply enough most of us can find some constant within our lives.

What are the constants in your world? Find them and you’ll find a safe refuge amidst turbulent times of change and much to be grateful for. As Richard Bolles suggests, “A meditative time, daily, when each of us sits and fixes our attention on the things that have remained constant in our life will always be restorative, and strengthening beyond belief. It gives us the mount on which to firmly stand, as change whirls around us, and in us.”

The one constant we all share is life. The second blessing I aspire to embody this New Year and wish upon you is to know life is a a gift. As Og Mandino says, “Life is a gift; holy, precious and beautiful.” Living with deep gratitude for the preciousness of this gift of life is the greatest gift we can give ourselves. The horrific tragedy suffered by hundreds of thousands of tsunami victims in our world today sharply contrasts the abundance and constancies we have to be grateful for in our life!

Living life as a gift also brings us into relationship with the giver of this precious gift – God (some call it otherwise - the Source, Creator, High Power, One Mind…) Placing God at our the center of our being gives our life more meaning and peace.

The last blessing I aspire toward and wish upon you this New Year is creating more peace of mind. Go easy. Tread lightly. Let us learn to relax in life’s uncertainty. Perhaps, if we all aspire to more peace in our own minds, families and lives we could create more peace on this planet through the ripple effect. Joan Borysenko relates a story on the power of peace of mind.

“Ian Gawler was twenty-five-year-old veterinarian and decathlon athlete when his leg was amputated at the hip because of bone cancer. Within a few months, the cancer had metastasized throughout his body, and he was given two weeks to live. Instead of accepting the limitation of his prognosis, he married Grace, his veterinary nurse, and the two of them set about receiving healing on every level. They consulted energy healers. Ian changed his diet and spent hours each day in a form of deep, silent meditation similar to centering prayer. Over a period of four years the cancer gradually disappeared. Twenty years later, my husband and I asked Ian to what he attributed his remarkable healing. He answered, ‘Peace of Mind.’” Joan Borysenko

Here is wishing you and your loved ones a New Year blessed with health, love, happiness and peace of mind!

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Warmest regards,

Teresa