Happy New Year!

Happy New Year!

We are in a new home in a new state and our life calls for new beginnings and traditions. One of our first new beginnings was how we celebrated Christmas. We found a new church in Little Rock and celebrated Christmas Eve with our new Unity family! Also celebrating there for the first time was our new pastor and her husband. She had just arrived from Champaign, Illinois and her first official duty was to officiate the Christmas candle light service. As our candles burned, we were each invited to bring the light of Christ into our heart center and fill our entire being with Christ’s light. It was pretty awesome and as usual, I was moved to tears! After the service, we had an opportunity to talk with the pastor and her husband and found out she spent the first half of her life – In Eden Prairie, MN our old home town! We have so much in common and we look forward to getting to know each other and our new church community!

After church, Jack and I were hungry. We had a half hour drive home ahead of us and nothing in the oven waiting for us. It was still relatively early, so we stopped at a Chinese Buffet! Wasn’t there a movie about this! Our dinner and the company was great, except that we ate too much! The entire place sparkled with light and the Christmas tree in the corner glowed with color! Every time the staff came to our table to check on us, they would wish us a Merry Christmas! Our hearts and bellies were warmed.

With no one expecting us out of bed early on Christmas morning, we slept in late. After breakfast, we jumped in the car and headed to the historic area of Benton. We were going to go hiking, but with Jack on call for work, we didn’t want to get too far away from civilization and the phone towers. Instead, we checked out the historic buildings in the city and scanned their energy! Arkansas actually saw some Civil War action and there were several buildings that are still standing from that era! We did a meditation at one of the buildings and had fun sharing our insights with each other! We were pleased we both saw a similar event. After a movie at the local theater, we headed home – this time a ham dinner was waiting for us in the oven.

With all of our loved ones - friends and family, so far away we will not be having our traditional New Year’s Eve Party this year. Instead we have decided to create a new tradition. Today I turned off the furnace and opened the windows! I decided to clear the energy of my home from the drama of the move and what ever else was lurking in the corners! Tomorrow night Jack and I will burn sage and clear our home of 2008 energy and welcome in 2009! Who knows, we may even go to bed before midnight! We are also looking at taking a river cruise to bring in the New Year. The piano player at our church is a local entertainer and he will be providing the music on the cruise. He invited the entire congregation to come join him! Added - we did make the cruise and had a wonderful time. This will definately be our new tradition for New Year's Eve! The music was fabulous, the food great and the partying - easy! If you hang out with us next year, bring your party hat - we're heading for the river!

A new year awaits us all. I pray this year brings you your heart’s desire, for our highest good. Blessings and Peace to you all! Happy New Year every one! Love, Joanne and Jack