For Sunday January 2nd, 2022

Hello everyone, wow, what a treat it is to write 22 as the year we're in. Several sources claim the number 22 denotes a high spiritual vibration. We are more than ready for it.

Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman wanted to write "a lyric to honor the hardships, hurt, hope, and healing of 2021 while also harkening the potential of 2022." She titled it "New Day's Lyric", here it is:

"What was cursed, we will cure.
What was plagued, we will prove pure.
Where we tend to argue, we will try to agree,
Those fortunes we forswore, now the future we foresee,
Where we weren't aware, we're now awake;
Those moments we missed
Are now these moments we make,
The moments we meet,
And our hearts, once all together beaten,
Now all together beat."

She goes on to write:
"This is such a unique New Year's Day, because even as we toast our glasses to the future, we still have our heads bowed for what has been lost," she wrote. "I think one of the most important things the new year reminds us is of that old adage: This too shall pass. You can't relive the same day twice — meaning every dawn is a new one, and every year an opportunity to step into the light."

So here we are, wisened from our past, aware of our responsibilities to the future, and ready to step into the Light. May we sit for the loving steps we will take.

Thank you all,

Richard