New Year to all.

I was up at 3 am to join the masses in a 4am World Peace meditation. Driving in the dark and drizzle I couldn't find the unfamiliar location of the spiritual center I had intended to attend. I returned home and as I got out of my car, I could see the full moon, a steady, hazy orb, imposing mystery and luminescence on the low clouds rapidly moving in the night sky. In that moment, I felt connected to something bigger and greater than my self. Inside, I turned on the magical Christmas tree lights and sat cross-legged on my couch in solitude, joining others in my thoughts and heart.

 And it occurred to me that this was yet another metaphor for the spiritual journey. So often we seem to be groping our way in the dark; so often we have a goal or a destination that we don't think we achieve. But if we hold our intention as the compass, nothing has been lost or diminished, we simply do not have the observable end result we had anticipated. Sometimes, if we're lucky or paying attention, we get a glimpse of something ancient and mysterious that illuminates our soul. And we are reminded that even when we don't know where we are going, and even if we don't seem to get anywhere, something greater is always there, an invisible force turning our cells into oceans and our DNA into galaxies. 

 To paraphrase my NLP mentor Carl Bucheit, "We live in a remarkable time of an intention-oriented world. We are experiencing the astonishing and often painful contrast between how things are and how they ought to be. Each day in a process that tantalizes and thwacks us to notice its intelligence, we are offered an abundance of Age-changing catalysts for making again and again and again, the most positive choices we can imagine. Strangely, we all know what we are doing, even when it truly appears that we don't."

I have a framed card on my desk that says, "Faith is believing that one of two things will happen: That there will be something solid for you to stand on, Or that you will be taught to fly."

 May 2010 offer an abundance of abundance to all.