New Year's Day 2019

Happy New Year! Happy New Beginning!
Today, the year is a newborn.
How will we choose to dress it, to feed it, to teach it, to learn from it?

To everything there is a season,
and a time to every purpose under heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die.
- Ecclesiastes 3:1

This bright new year is given me
To live each day with zest
To daily grow and try to be
My highest and my best.
- William Arthur Ward

Don't Wait!
Start on your dreams, your impulses,
your longings, your special occasions today.
Because this is your moment.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Further reading: The First Day

New Years Resolutions

Old Beginnings versus NEW beginnings

A Better Plan 

Renewal and Rebirth - The Great Cycle
      

Share the Season - Share Yourself

Is there someone who will be alone this Christmas unless you share your holiday with them? Invite them to spend the day with you.

One must know not just how to accept a gift,
but with what grace to share it.
- Maya Angelou

The wise man does not lay up his own treasures.
The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
- Lao Tzu

Spending the holidays without family can feel depressing. If you are not with your family this holiday, take positive steps to feel good about yourself: affirm your self worth, spend time with your religious (or community) group, and extend yourself to be of service to the less fortunate.

Giving is the highest expression of our power.
- Vivian Greene

Among its other benefits,
giving liberates the soul of the giver.
- Maya Angelou

Further reading: Share the Season

Channels Made for Sharing

The Power of Generosity
     

New Years 2018

This bright new year is given me
To live each day with zest
To daily grow and try to be
My highest and my best.
- William Arthur Ward

Happy New Year! Happy New Beginning!

Today, the year is a newborn.
How will we choose to dress it, to feed it, to teach it, to learn from it?

To everything there is a season,
and a time to every purpose under heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die.
- Ecclesiastes 3:1

Don't Wait!
Start on your dreams, your impulses,
your longings, your special occasions today.
Because this is your moment.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Further reading: New Years Resolutions

The First Day

Old Beginnings versus NEW beginnings

Renewal and Rebirth - The Great Cycle

A Better Plan
      

Share the Gifts

One must know not just how to accept a gift,
but with what grace to share it.
- Maya Angelou

Spending the holidays without family can feel depressing. If you are not with your family this holiday, take positive steps to feel good about yourself: affirm your self worth, spend time with your religious (or community) group, and extend yourself to be of service to the less fortunate.

Is there someone who will be alone this Christmas unless you share your holiday with them? Invite them to spend the day with you.

The wise man does not lay up his own treasures.
The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
- Lao Tzu

Giving is the highest expression of our power.
- Vivian Greene

Among its other benefits,
giving liberates the soul of the giver.
- Maya Angelou

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Further reading: The Power of Generosity

Channels Made for Sharing

Share the Season
   

Happy New Year 2015

Happy New Year! Happy New Beginning!

Today, the year is a newborn.
How will we choose to dress it, to feed it, to teach it, to learn from it?

This bright new year is given me
To live each day with zest
To daily grow and try to be
My highest and my best.
- William Arthur Ward

Don't Wait!
Start on your dreams, your impulses,
your longings, your special occasions today.
Because this is your moment.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

To everything there is a season,
and a time to every purpose under heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die.
- Ecclesiastes 3:1

Further reading: The First Day

Renewal and Rebirth - The Great Cycle

New Years Resolutions

Old Beginnings versus NEW beginnings

A Better Plan

Spirit of The Season

May your season shine with delight and surprise.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

If we are not happy and joyous at this season,
for what other season shall we wait and
for what other time shall we look?
- Abdul-Baha

It's about sharing.
You just give what you have to give
wherever you go,
and you let God handle the rest.
- Lindsay Wagner

A Table Grace:
We gather today in gratitude for the bounty of the land,
the joyful company around this table,
and all the other blessings of this life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

In the Spirit of The Season...

• Be Kind
• Be Generous
• Be Helpful
• Be Forgiving
• Be Thankful
• Smile
• Be Cheerful
• Celebrate Your Blessings
• Do an Act Of Kindness for Someone Who Can Never Repay you

Further reading: Pay It Forward

Mary Anne Radmacher: PREPARING MY HEART FOR THE HOLIDAYS
 
Mary Anne Radmacher: A HOLIDAY BLESSING FOR THE CHILDREN IN THE FAMILY HOME

Season Quotes

Quotes about Delight

Smile Quotes

Be Cheerful Quotes

Blessings

Quotes about Sharing

Holiday Season

The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree
is the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.
- Burton Hills

What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store.
What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more.
- Dr. Seuss

The holiday season promotes
a heightened sense of community.
It draws our chins up and
helps us look above and over
the limiting fence of our own events,
activities and preoccupations.
The opportunity for a heroic gesture
can tap you quietly on the shoulder
in the midst of a holiday bustle.
If you are attentive,
you will notice the gentle touch
and will be able to respond. Remember...
There are no small acts of kindness.
Every compassionate act makes large the world.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Further Reading: Today is a gift

Love, Celebration, and Humor

Index of my articles

Christmas Quotes

Holiday Quotes

Inspiring Quotes about Life

Quotes about Compassion

Short Inspirational Quotes

Words of Comfort

Happy Holidays to All

May God grant you always...
A sunbeam to warm you,
a moonbeam to charm you,
a sheltering Angel so nothing can harm you.
Laughter to cheer you.
Faithful friends near you.
And whenever you pray,
Heaven to hear you.
- Irish Blessing

Guide our feet into the way of peace.
- Luke 1:79

You have heard that it was said, 'Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.' 

But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.
- Matthew 5:43-44

May you be joyful. May peace be with you. Pass the peace to all those around you.

Mary Anne Radmacher: Welcome the return of those uninformed dreams

Today's message is written by Mary Anne Radmacher, author of many inspiring books and co-author (with me) of Simply An Inspired Life. 

 "I guess everything comes back again, once we have thoroughly exhausted all the alternatives." Dallas, wrote to me. (Dallas is Dallas Dellinger Hlatky) By sifting through my relentless new questions in this day, perhaps I will be lucky enough to see all the sparkly dreams of my youth "come back." Welcome the return of those uninformed dreams that don't understand profit and loss statements and product trend curves and fourth quarter projections. Those dreams that get shuffled under admonitions like "be realistic," and "you have to be practical," and "There's so much to do with the holidays here." All those dreams that, once remembered, make everything sharper, smellier and more enthusiastic. Yes, Dallas, everything comes back again. In this holiday season I want to invite the gifts of my most profound and meaningful dreams into my daily experience. "I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind." Emily Bronte 

 Further reading: The jump is so frightening - Mary Anne Radmacher Life is defined more by its risks than by its samenesses. - Mary Anne Radmacher Mary Anne Radmacher: Dare to dream of your great success The Wisdom of Mary Anne Radmacher - Quotes for an Inspired Life

Anton Chekhov: Any idiot can face a crisis. It's the day-to-day living that wears you out.

Any idiot can face a crisis. It's the day-to-day living that wears you out.
- Anton Chekhov

Further reading: Mary Anne Radmacher: THE GIFT OF SEEING

Beginnings - Happy New Year!

A new year - a new season - a new beginning - renewal - rebirth.

Let every day be the first day of the rest of your life, but especially let today be a new beginning.

What is your vision for your life? Put it into action starting today.

Happy New Year!

Mary Anne Radmacher: AS I PREPARE FOR THE NEW YEAR

AS I PREPARE FOR THE NEW YEAR
I recognize that it is a cultural event that celebrates the transition from one night at midnight to the dawn of the following day with such fanfare. In truth, New Year's Eve is just another transition from one day to another. That it has become a marking point for clarifying values and identifying ways of betterment is something of a unique opportunity.

As I prepare for 2009 I want to fully articulate the roads and ways, which will travel me to my best self.

I want to be authentic and live openly, directed with my passions and priorities but without rigid agenda; I want to love with a strong sense of my own internally, fully calibrated compass;
I want to embrace the opportunities of 2009 with unfurled love and vanquished fear. I welcome discipline and ease to the front of the classroom of my days and invite visiting instructors to draw out the finest parts of my soul.

In 2009 I offer continuous gentle invitations to myself...to become the most inspired version of my self possible.

In all my ways of seeing - may I use new glasses, a telescope and a microscope. And my I always allow myself to see a circumstance through the tender hearts of my friends.

- Mary Anne Radmacher

Mary Anne Radmacher: THE GIFT OF SEEING

THE GIFT OF SEEING
Remember the difference between looking and seeing.

Remember that holiday weekend when you said yes to several different invitations and you accepted them all? Showed up at all of them, all the while, glancing at your watch to time your exit to reach the next party? Okay. Maybe you have never done that, but I have. The net result was that I showed up but wasn't really present. Oops.

I think one of the finest gifts I can give my friends in the holiday season is to pause with a long enough quality to actually SEE them. My calm, unhurried presence communicates this gift of a message, "I see you. I recognize you. I remember our times of together and am contributing right now to another quality memory. I value you and honor and take the time, right this moment to pause long enough to truly notice you."

- Mary Anne Radmacher

May this Holiday Season smile gently upon you and yours, and may the New Year bring you Joy and Health.

May this Holiday Season smile gently upon you and yours, and may the New Year bring you Joy and Health.

Light & Joy,
Jonathan

Mary Anne Radmacher: A HOLIDAY BLESSING FOR THE CHILDREN IN THE FAMILY HOME

A HOLIDAY BLESSING FOR THE CHILDREN IN THE FAMILY HOME

Within you
The skills to discover what you need to know;

Beneath you
Knowledge of land to root you and guide you;

Behind you
History that upholds your dreams

Before you
Hope that inspires your vision

Above you
Angels who know your name

Around you
Always
The love of your family.

- Mary Anne Radmacher

Mary Anne Radmacher: PREPARING MY HEART FOR THE HOLIDAYS

PREPARING MY HEART FOR THE HOLIDAYS As I prepare for the various opportunities, choices and joys around the holiday time, I write this for myself (and I will share it with you). I offer gentle understanding to myself. I position myself in love, not fear. I look behind me with forgiveness. I look forward with festive anticipation. I embrace this holy moment and assert, "Now. This moment is the moment to love, the moment to serve, the moment to seize the legacy instead of the small. Now. Now I will live large, love boldly, reach to the edges of my unfurled heart and fully enrolled hope. - Mary Anne Radmacher

Honor diversity in all seasons. - jlh