It’s my birthday today, so I can write about what I want to. Oh. I do that anyway. Right. Well.
So anyway, I wanted to talk about what has been going on with me lately. I know you’ve been discussing it amongst yourselves (mumblemumblemumble), and I can hear you, feel you, thinking to yourselves, What’s different about Karen lately? I can’t quite put my finger on it. Haircut? No… Lost weight? Maybe… What? What can it be? What??!
We all change. In fact, change is about the only thing that’s constant about life. Mostly change occurs slowly, without us realizing it, and then one day we wake up and say, Hey, I’m taller! or maybeHey, where’d all these kids come from?, when in reality the changes were happening all the time. Sometimes, though, the changes are conscious, noticeable, and deliberate. It’s been said before that this is a year of change, and I for one have been embracing it.
So lately, for me, it’s been coming down to this: Who am I? Who do I wish to be? What changes do I wish to make in my own life, knowing that anything that changes within me also sends ripples out into the rest of the world, making changes there as well?
I’ve been having the most wondrous immersion into a world so filled with love and connection, a world I somehow knew existed yet that always seemed just out of reach. I cannot tell you how transforming this experience has been for me, and I know that this is just the beginning, that the changes occurring now as I shift more firmly into that world will continue to reverberate around the globe and back to me again, transmuted, transformed, transforming.
Here’s my birthday gift to you, then, a little something from Lao Tzu that sort of sums up where I’m headed:
Kindness in words creates confidence.
Kindness in thinking creates profoundness.
Kindness in giving creates love.
Here’s hoping that today is a day of birth for all of you, the birth of something new and wonderful, just for you.
And because I like you so much, here’s a little more wood, too, for your happy contemplation:
[tags] Lao Tzu, kindness, transformation, change, happiness [/tags]
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