The New Year is almost upon us.  Shortly after Christmas we start preparing for the big night we can let go of the previous year and hopefully, Hopefully welcome a New Year with lots of promise and great things.  We start planning resolutions of things we want to work on and accomplish. We start making promises that we will try to do better and make the New Year "My Year!"  But why do we do so..What was so bad about all the past years you participated in that you look forward always to a new one?

Well firstly, what you are doing right now is determining what the New Year will be like.  Even as we speak the present, becomes that past as the future becomes the present. The past is past. It is finished. What we did in the moment faded away and is fading more and more as we think on it. It quickly becomes yesterday and then last week, last month, last year and so on and on the future arrived and now exist in memory. Spirit often says we exist actually in the past, present and future all at the same time.  This moment can influence and be influenced by how we conceptualize it and our participation with it. We are effecting it and effected. We are the cause and as well the effect. We are in fact every part of it and it is a part of it.  But we still look forward to something arriving better regardless of the past events, we want better.  But why is it always something you look forward to?

Because we have memory.

We have memory of the good that that good left us feeling in the moment, the experience of it and we always want more. We have memory of the bad and negative and we want it gone. We want it to disappear and be replaced by only good, because we deserve it. Actually we do but that is a part of the what we should do instead. Right now we are talking about the present and past..what we should do is in the future and if your patient you will get the answer. Back to memory.  We remember how we were affected. Good is what we want..Bad..it just needs to go away.  One is the solution, the other is the problem we want to get away. But what we don't realize is how we let it touch us is purely our decision. Good or Bad, they both can have the same effect on us.. We can learn from the bad and find that the good can at times teach us nothing at all. But we are still always the chooser of the event and how we will react.  

So what should we do instead?

STOP LOOKING FORWARD!  Seriously.  Instead, think of how this moment you are having should change, for the good and the bad. Should we look at this moment, being present in it, fell the worth of it and create from our ability that is within us, to connect the the Co-Creative God source that is within you and try to examine the current and past events and something needing improving up and being appreciative for.  I never look forward. I always think that what I do right now will make the future what I want. If an event occurs that creates challenge and prepares us to learn and grow, it was because it needed to exist and I needed to exist with it.  I needed that thing to happen.  Having no expectation of what the New Years will be is much better than sitting on my hands doing nothing.  Looking forward is actually not preparation, it is anticipation. Everyone knows what anticipation feels like. A lot of times the anticipation years a very great experience just the same as having none at all.  But preparation, doesn't lead typically to disappointment like anticipation can.  Preparation allows being here in the now in a process of creating or at least close enough,  getting the information needed to realize it and if it doesn't manifest, what to think about doing till you do achieve it. 

We have to start preparing and stop looking forward. We have to prepare for the things that are present and embrace them.  We create the future and what ever you are doing now, Keep Moving Forward, but realize that this moment was the future already and you made a choice to sit and be here now and just like that, it is gone.

Here is to a wonderful New Year with lots of challenges and blessings and I have decided, it is perfectly what it should be.

Happy Holidays and Happy New Year!

Blessings,

Steven