Dear All of Us,
I want to get this
just right and
wish everyone a
HAPPY NEW YEAR,
but which one?
The Chinese and
Lunar New Year
is January 29th.
The Jewish New Year
will be September 22nd.
For the Hopi People
it will be December 22nd.
Christians begin the
Liturgical New Year
on November 30th.
The USA Fiscal New Year
begins October 1st.,
yet from 46 BCE
The Julian Calander,
and since 1582,
The Gregorian Calander,
have insisted that
no matter
the season,
January 1st.
always marks
the start of the
New Year.
That's a
dangerous error.
It mismatches
calendar
and
climate,
seasons
spiritual
and
environmental.
I live in Washington, DC.
That's East Coast,
Mid-Atlantic USA.
Here the real
New Year
begins in March.
It starts fresh,
lots of light
and warmth,
budding and
blooming.
New Life
Springs
It's the first
of the new year's
four seasons.
Right now here in DC,
though,
we are just getting into
Winter
the very last
of the year's
four seasons
no matter the
Calander Say
about a
new year.
Just as we need
to dress for the
season outside,
so we need
to address
the season
inside.
Soulfully,
winter allows
slow go.
We're in
way more
than out.
Reflection,
centering,
sensing,
Divine Comforter
Love wrapped.
"Some Native Americans
in the Southwest
enter a phase of
'keeping still'
in this season,
staying inside and
quieting their activities
just as animals
and plants
enter their own
winter repose.
Now the winter solstice
approaches, when even
the rising sun stands still
on the horizon." (1)
After we
weather the winter
inside and out
it will be
the right time to
calendar call
a
Happy New Year
Right now, right here
in winter
it is so
season appropriate
to
Soul Still
"Be still
and know
I am God."
(2)
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PS
Please do see
FURTHERANCE
below for
some still sharing.
(1) The Wisdom of Wilderness,
Gerald May, MD
HarperSanFrancisco
2006
(2)Psalm 46: 10
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January 7,2025
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Friday,
January 10, 2025
Both dates are merely
calendar calls
dating a New Year
its way.
Just had to tuck that in!
A WARM WINTER WELCOME
from here
to all wherever you are
and whatever the season
of the year and of life
in your there.
LAST FIVE POSTINGS
AVAILABLE
by
scrolling down
beneath this posting.
A FURTERENCE
Some stillness to savor
"To the mind that is still,
the whole universe
surrenders."
Lao Tzu
"Listen to the silence.
It has so much to say."
Runi
"Nothing in all creation
is so like God as stillness."
Meister Eckhart
(It's ok to be quiet -
mind and mouth)
"In the inner stillness
where meditation leads,
the Spirit secretly anoints
the soul and heals
the deepest wounds."
John of the Cross
"I think 99 times
and find nothing.
I stop thinking,
swim in silence,
and the truth
comes to me."
Albert Einstein
"In returning
and rest
you will be saved;
in quietness and
in trust shall be
your strength,"
Isaiah 30:15
LUMEN NOCTIS
Light Night
flame quiet bright
steady sure
gentle hope assures
dark dissipates
Beacon Beam
"Candle light us"
Oh
LUX CHRISTI
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Looking
forward
to us all
being back
here together
next week.
Love to all.
God Bless,
John Frank
frankly speaking
spirituality for the street
johnfrankshares.blogspot.com
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