Another Revolution!
This week I am completing another revolution around the sun and adding an additional notch to my Earth astronaut belt. I’m sure my family has some plans for helping me rejoice in this milestone—I’m hoping it includes cake with lots of buttercream frosting!
Throughout the year we eagerly celebrate the birthdays of family members and friends. There are so many milestones that are reached it seems: the first birthday, school age, entering the teens, legally coming of age, attaining retirement eligibility—hmmm, then what? Are we attaching too much significance to the numbers and the resulting expectations in human life terms? Are we limiting ourselves by doing so? Here is an example:
Every proud parent eagerly awaits the day their babies learn to walk, generally around one year of age. Comparisons are made with other babies that age almost as if it is some type of contest. Well, neither of our children fit the norm. Our daughter took her first steps at a very early seven and a half months, and our son took his time and walked at around fifteen months. Throughout their growing years, we tried assiduously to let them develop at their own pace. We also refused to impose limits on them according to age.
I have reached that time in my human experience where others my age seem to take delight in assuring me that we are all deteriorating, our health will continue to get worse, and it’s inevitable that we will become more incapacitated mentally and physically with each passing year. It’s not only irritating, it most certainly doesn’t fit my understanding of spiritual reality, and I am just not buying it! Even scientists have been unable to correlate aging with our revolutions around the sun.
As I contemplate this year’s journey—which wasn’t an easy one—the questions I seek to answer are: was I spiritually able to meet the challenges I faced; did I move my purpose and mission to help bring Light to others forward; did I keep a healthy, open, pliable thought ready for improvement and growth; am I combating the pervasive beliefs in ageism?
We have just commemorated the birth of Jesus of Nazareth, an extraordinary gift and representative of Light to humankind. But isn’t that what every birth is, a new expression of Light whose ultimate goal is to bless the world? Shouldn’t the whole human experience be one of progress as we learn to be more effective in achieving that mission, growing in knowledge, experience, clarity, and wisdom? At what point, at what “age” do we cease to be a full expression of God’s true primal nature: of Source, Truth, Law, Life, Mind, Soul, Love, Sprit? Never! We are eternally one with each facet and its qualities, functions, and attributes.
So now I happily embark on my next revolution, determined that it will be joyous and filled with great progress, peace, and continued usefulness. I am so grateful that all of you points of Light are on this miraculous and beautiful spaceship with me. Let’s all join forces in illuminating our planet with enormous good as we continue to whirl around the sun—one revolution after another!
This week I am completing another revolution around the sun and adding an additional notch to my Earth astronaut belt. I’m sure my family has some plans for helping me rejoice in this milestone—I’m hoping it includes cake with lots of buttercream frosting!
Throughout the year we eagerly celebrate the birthdays of family members and friends. There are so many milestones that are reached it seems: the first birthday, school age, entering the teens, legally coming of age, attaining retirement eligibility—hmmm, then what? Are we attaching too much significance to the numbers and the resulting expectations in human life terms? Are we limiting ourselves by doing so? Here is an example:
Every proud parent eagerly awaits the day their babies learn to walk, generally around one year of age. Comparisons are made with other babies that age almost as if it is some type of contest. Well, neither of our children fit the norm. Our daughter took her first steps at a very early seven and a half months, and our son took his time and walked at around fifteen months. Throughout their growing years, we tried assiduously to let them develop at their own pace. We also refused to impose limits on them according to age.
I have reached that time in my human experience where others my age seem to take delight in assuring me that we are all deteriorating, our health will continue to get worse, and it’s inevitable that we will become more incapacitated mentally and physically with each passing year. It’s not only irritating, it most certainly doesn’t fit my understanding of spiritual reality, and I am just not buying it! Even scientists have been unable to correlate aging with our revolutions around the sun.
As I contemplate this year’s journey—which wasn’t an easy one—the questions I seek to answer are: was I spiritually able to meet the challenges I faced; did I move my purpose and mission to help bring Light to others forward; did I keep a healthy, open, pliable thought ready for improvement and growth; am I combating the pervasive beliefs in ageism?
We have just commemorated the birth of Jesus of Nazareth, an extraordinary gift and representative of Light to humankind. But isn’t that what every birth is, a new expression of Light whose ultimate goal is to bless the world? Shouldn’t the whole human experience be one of progress as we learn to be more effective in achieving that mission, growing in knowledge, experience, clarity, and wisdom? At what point, at what “age” do we cease to be a full expression of God’s true primal nature: of Source, Truth, Law, Life, Mind, Soul, Love, Sprit? Never! We are eternally one with each facet and its qualities, functions, and attributes.
So now I happily embark on my next revolution, determined that it will be joyous and filled with great progress, peace, and continued usefulness. I am so grateful that all of you points of Light are on this miraculous and beautiful spaceship with me. Let’s all join forces in illuminating our planet with enormous good as we continue to whirl around the sun—one revolution after another!
