It’s a new year! I know, I know. Given the title, it’s weird to call that out. Stay with me; I promise I’m going somewhere.
Food for thought.
We do a lot of celebrating, starting over, and setting intentions and resolutions at this time of year and this year, it’s all just sitting a bit differently with me. It could be the fact that I’m hitting a significant life change this year (my two older boys will be graduating from high school). Whatever the reason, the way life moves past us so quickly, I honestly want the moments of this year to be intentionally slower. However small, even the mundane, I want to savor. If today is it….did I live out my purpose in all the tiny ways today? Did I celebrate the New Year today?
We focus most of our effort on the big moments throughout life, and increasingly, I’m reminded that all of those are great, but at the end of the day, it’s the smallest of the small, the quietest actions that make the whole of life worth it. Did I live out my purpose today? I’m not talking about aiming for perfection. Did I try in my actions and interactions? And realistically when I didn’t, because we won’t get it right 100% of the time, did I recognize it and do something to reconcile?
Did I teach my children to be good, kind, loving and honorable humans? Don’t get this confused with did they choose it? Did I TEACH and model this for them today? It’s easy to get our actions mixed up with our children’s choices when they become older. Was I loving, compassionate, grace-giving and truthful? Did I acknowledge when I got things wrong? What does it look like and feel like to empty my purpose in my piece of the world every single day? Am I celebrating my everyday life?
That’s what I want this year. To savor time. Every teeny, tiny bit of the little things that don’t stick out. Because, if I don’t get another tomorrow my new year is today.
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