It's Year's End

Time Flies

“How did it get so late so soon?

It's night before it's afternoon.

December is here before it's June.

My goodness how the time has flewn.

How did it get so late so soon?”

Dr. Seuss

So here we are at the end of another the year. Twenty-fourteen is fading into the sunset like John Wayne and his horse at movie's end. We can wrap it up in tissue paper with our ornaments and pack it into the attic of our memory. I wonder whether you are able to review your year better than I. I have to take down the calendar and page by page see what happened when.

Year end reviews are one way to realize how life intervenes in the best laid plans. If we go back now and look at our new year's resolutions from January, 2014, most of us will scoff at their naivety. So many demanding things come splashing into our days without invitation. Rarely do we achieve the things on our list. I'm speaking for myself, of course. I'm easily distracted.

Still it's good to look back. What's clear is that we accomplished things we never intended; things that some unseen hand guided us toward, and insisted we do. Life has its way with us, even when we are motivated in the opposite direction. Often we come to understand that the time was not right to do what we had planned, and something inside us knew that. And sometimes, it is as though Zeus himself threw a thunderbolt into our path to stop us. Either way, I believe we can trust life and our inner compass to direct us. It may not be where our fine and competent brain wants to go, but it is where our soul has business that needs attention.

                                                          In the Spirit,

                                                                Jane