Can you believe it? It's 2012.
Wow, I'm still rolling that one off my tongue and trying to get used to the sound of it. It's that time of the year when most of us are thinking of new beginnings and although I abandoned New Years resolutions years ago, the contemplative soul that I am still likes having an "intention" to focus on. Like many others, I've been choosing a "word for the year" for at least four years now. Some, like last years word, have been a good fit and others...well, not so much.
This year I had a difficult time settling on my word. None of the ones that I've considered for the past month felt right. Until today that is (I'm writing this on the 31st of Dec.). I had decided that I wouldn't rush it...that I'd let the word find me...and it did.
As you've guessed by the photo above, my word for 2012 is Embrace. As soon as it came to me, I knew it was perfect. I've come to a place in my life where I'm ready to let go of striving and struggling to make things happen. I've (mostly) let go of needing things to be a certain way. I'm ready to allow possibilities to unfold. I'm ready to embrace life with all it's ups and downs, it's highs and it's lows, it's great and it's not-so-great! It's not that I'm feeling fatalistic...not at all. I'm just ready to see the possibilities, the opportunities and the potential's in whatever rolls my way, rather than needing things to be different before I can be happy.
So there it is...Embrace. I'm embracing 2012 and looking for the gifts that each moment holds. Bring it on!
(Have you chosen a word for 2012? I'd love to know what what it is, if you have.)
For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.
And to make an end is to make a beginning.
~T.S. Eliot, "Little Gidding
