Reaching for the Toilet Paper

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​New Year's resolutions are about goals, dreams, and hopes for the coming year. Some people "reach for the stars" and others reach to survive.

As we move into 2025, let us be aware of all those who are barely surviving.  There all people all over the world who are sick, homeless, living in poverty, and struggling with wars, climate change, and oppression.

Rather than a narcissistic "resolution" experience, let us pray for peace, and a raising our eyes to Oneness Consciousness.  

At 83, I am grateful to be alive, being in relatively good health, and for my ability to reach for the toilet paper.

I resolve in 2025 to work on being a light in a dark world.  I resolve to help those in need, and support the life's journey for as many people as possible.  I resolve to be aware of how I use the earth's resources and consume and waste less.  I resolve to be kind, compassionate and loving, noticing and appreciating those who help me live an abundant life -- my doctors, nurses, pharmacists, garbage collectors, clerks, waitpeople, spiritual guides and angels.

I appreciate my biological family, and also my chosen family.  I am blessed with supportive and loving spiritual community, a wonderful wife, and beautiful children, in-laws, and grandchildren.

I spend this time living in gratitude and service.  I pray for enlightened leadership, so we can move more clearly from Empire Consciousness (power, domination, fear, scarcity, hierarchy, control and oppression) to a world of Oneness Consciousness (equality, love, compassion, empathy, kindness, abundance, sharing, and connection).

This is reaching for the stars, and healing the planet.  I resolve to be the light, be the love, and spread joy wherever I can.  And in 2026, I hope to still be able to reach for the toilet paper.