Hope everyone is doing well. Spring is here so I thought New Beginnings would be a good title for this month’s blog. Trees are blooming and I can finally hear the birds singing outside my window. Now that Winter is a part of my life, the sound of the birds is something I hold near and dear to my heart. It is the sound of outside. I spent so much time in the Sunshine State, so no surprise that I am still not a fan of Winter, and the cold, and being stuck inside. My kids think I am crazy for moving up north and taking on such a drastic change in the weather, but I was thinking about how different I live my life now that I deal with the seasons and such a drastic change from month to month. I am trying to embrace that life is now seasonal, and I have Summers to look forward to. Yes, I may have been stuck inside for a few months, but I also got a lot done. My focus was on writing and completing my book, and I know that if the sun was calling my name, I would not have been so diligent about writing. The seasons are helping me to see life differently and live my life differently. I do like to hibernate a little, but now that the nice weather is coming, being isolated will no longer be an option for me.
Changing my weekly blog to a monthly one has also completely changed my routine, my thought process, and I find myself in a new season of healing. A few weeks ago, I was complaining about something to my son, and he said you need to read your own blog, you need to read your own book. He always has a way of putting me back in check, and at that moment is when I realized that yes, I am in a new season of healing, and all the same rules still apply. Stay off autopilot, be grateful, stay positive, stay out of my head, let go and let God, keep my eyes forward and out of the past, the list goes on. Each time we complete a season of healing we become stronger and then look to take on the next chapter. We feel like we are starting all over again, but we must remember that we are not. We are taking all the knowledge with us from the previous chapter and looking to level up. We set our sights higher, so it feels like we are starting over. That is the place I am right now. The old way of living (which at one time was new for me) feels uncomfortable, and no longer a good fit, and I am ready to move forward.
Every time we move forward, new lessons are presented and the old ones show up again. I always say the old ones show back up to test us. They are there so we can show that we are ready for the new chapter. We don’t want to repeat the old lessons, so we show that we have grown. We are more present, we are more grateful, we are more forgiving (of ourselves and others), we see life differently, we want to have a new beginning once again. Life is full of endings and new beginnings, and it reflects our growth. I always say that endings don’t have to be so ugly and so dramatic, but they usually are because that is the only way we can let go. We cling to what is comfortable even when it is no longer good for us. We stay at jobs and we stay in relationships long past their expiration dates because it is what we know. The fear of change will try and hold us back every time, but now that I am aware of that, I try to face it and see it for what it is. I am learning to embrace every ending and new beginning and hoping and praying that God has a few more in store for me.
The photo I chose this week represents where I am right now. I always say that you can tell how I am doing and if I am present by how my plants are doing. They weren’t doing so well. Once I stopped doing my weekly blog, my routine changed and I was a little all over the place. I wanted to do this and learn that and be here and be there and everything felt very chaotic. I had to remind myself that another new beginning was presenting itself and filled with a lot of unknowns which can feel a little scary. I had to read my own blog and remember to stay grounded, take time to sit in silence and hear the guidance. I had to be present. I got off work early last week and took a few hours to give my plants some tender loving care and now they are happy again. So am I.
The next month look at your life as a new beginning filled with new lessons, new healing, and new opportunities. This can show up as new knowledge, new friendships, new jobs, new relationships and a new way of doing things. We honor our past because it made us who we are and we walk into our future with all of it. We don’t carry it with us as baggage that weighs us down, but instead we carry it inside; it is all the knowledge and experience we need to lead the way to another new beginning.
In love and light,
Fran
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