Last week I posted here a recent article about gratitude. Now
that it is the beginning of December, the holiday season is in full swing. I’m
preparing to join with other handbell ringers to bring festive music into
senior residences, churches, grocery stores, and to the infirm and shut-in. I
want to live my gratitude in acts of beauty.
But I am also thinking already about the year to come. I am
ruminating about the practices I would like to hone in the coming year (what many
people call “resolutions”). And each December I take much-needed time to really
ponder this. It entails reviewing this past year, finding the narrow
constrictions I would like to breathe life into and to grow into, and exploring
the pathways I can journey to accomplish this.
During this season of plenty I consciously shift from gratitude
to generosity. I open my heart to that which I would like to grow in the world
next year, and I open my eyes for the opportunities and means to do so.
Will you join me?
(Edited excerpt from a post six years ago.)
