A Blessing for the Year Ahead

Blessing for the Year Ahead

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Dear ones,

Another year is drawing to a close.

The turning of the year is more than a date on a calendar—it is a threshold. A place where we pause and feel what has moved through us: the joys and struggles, the beginnings and endings, the ways we have grown without even noticing.

The New Year is not asking for reinvention.

It is offering renewal.

This is a quiet moment to bow to what has been and to gently open your hands to what is still unknown. You do not need a perfect vision for the future. You only need a willing heart and a kind attention.

If you wish, take a few breaths and offer yourself this simple blessing:

May I carry forward what truly matters.
May I release what no longer serves.
May I walk into this new year with courage and care.

And then extend that light outward:

May we choose love again and again.
May our world remember its own goodness.

The light you seek for the year ahead is not waiting somewhere else.

It already lives in you—
in your capacity to begin again,
to forgive a little more,
to open when it would be easier to close.

As this year turns, may you trust that something wise is moving you forward, even when you cannot yet see the path.

With gratitude for you, and faith in what is unfolding,
Jack

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