Yes, the year is new once again, and our hearts must follow this tradition if we are ever to understand what it means to create anew, and why creating is so important to each and every one of us.

I have written so many of these messages for so many years at this time, that when it was suggested that I give it a go again, I poised before saying yes, as all I could hear was my same old voice, saying the same old things, and, frankly, I couldn’t bear the sound of it.

Do you know what I mean, dear readers?

Have you had the very same experience year after year on or about New Year ’s Day or eve, or the day before that, or the days to follow?  It’s why I say to you that the year is new once again, because it actually is, but even more important because it most definitely is, despite how old we habitually make it.  The simple truth is that you and I, and all the others on this lovely planet, have never been here before, not at this time, not at this exact moment, not in this very rare and unique place and time.

No, never.

And because we have never been here before, despite our dungeon determination to believe as if we have, we could discover how new this day actually is.

So, stop here, right now, even as you read this.

Stop here, right now, and feel the presence of each moment, one following upon each other, like crystal drops of water dripping into a well.

One.  Then One.  Then One, again.  Each one new.  Each one a sparkling moment. Each one as still and as astonishing as the very first one, as the only one of its kind on earth.  And with the drip of the water comes the sound.  Separated from every other sound on earth.

Can you hear it?  Can you actually hear it?

That is the sound of the new year.  Of the only new year you will ever hear.  As God made it, here and now, as He intended for us to hear it.  To experience it.  To be here, now, just now, and only now, to say, Happy New Year.  To everyone.

-Michael E. Gerber 

 

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