New Year

Well friends this has been quite a year. The winds of change and the time of reaping and sowing certainly seems to have been the theme for 2008.

Some are saying that perhaps 2009 will be a respite and a small window of rest from the tumult of 2008. I truly hope that this coming year is a respite. We definitely are being purged as it were in the fire. Everything that is dross is being burned away. We are stepping through a threshold, and we are being asked to ponder who we are without our possessions, without our wealth, and without our security. All that has defined America as a nation and people has been put to the fire. We have become fat, lazy, indulgent and greedy. Our greed has lead to a crisis that has not been seen since the time of the great depression. We are on the verge of a new birth and a new order. In this process a spirit of fear and dread has swept over many. For others, it has been an attack waged on spirit and body unlike anything previously seen. More now than ever we must ground ourselves in the middle of this storm. We must put on our armor of faith and hope to survive, and be willing to let go of every pre conceived notion in order to move forward. If indeed we are due for a respite, this is also a time to remember it is simply that, a small window to gird up our loins and gather our strength. We are no longer allowed the luxury to go around fat and belching with our spiritual tummies hanging over our belts. The call is loud and clear to wake up from our slumbers. Now more than ever we must stand in the gap as the world spins out its current course.