A Blessing for Showing Up in the New Year
Staying true to our gifts, tilting the scale toward a kinder human ecology
If you, like me, are honoring the Jewish New Year, may these blessings deepen your celebration. And if what you need is simply a benediction for a new beginning —for encouragement to show up a little more fully tomorrow than you have showed up today —may one of these wishes land in just the right spot in you.
(We recorded this particular version at a large gathering in my beloved Woodstock Jewish Community — so if it carries a little more resonance than usual, that’s why.)
A BLESSING FOR SHOWING UP:
May you be blessed with gratitude flowing through you as the best anti-inflammatory remedy, each time you consider the astonishing miracles that have taken place in order for you to show up here on earth to play the human game.
May you be blessed knowing that there is not now, there never was and there never will be another human being just like you. You and you alone can make a contribution to our human family that no one else can. That is why the seed of desire to stay true to your gifts has been planted in you as an enlivening force. Not a reason to ever start guilt tripping yourself about not doing enough.
May you be blessed with steadfast friends who will mirror what’s possible for you on days when you are not able to see it yourself.
May your hand reach for the perfect book and your gaze land on the perfect line of guidance on days when you doubt that your voice matters.
May you rope off a sacred space each day to ponder what would be the kindest, most pleasing way for you to show up for yourself first and then for everyone who crosses your path and for the tasks at hand.
Getting clear, that your contribution adds to the Power of Good, may you risk asking for what you need, in order to fully honor the value of who you are and what you bring to the cosmic potluck.
Most important: May you be blessed with distinguishing which Netflix shows will leave you intellectually & emotionally empty and the shows that will bolster the bud of the next creation you’re burning to share with the rest of us.
May we all be blessed.
Beautiful Julia. I feel so thankful that I decided to finally read these posts, I really needed to hear this and I am glad I listened to this need and followed through. Looking forward to staying in contact with you and being open to whatever else comes my way. Lots of love!