Let’s Thrive in 2025!

The journey of 2024 faded into the new year of 2025, as the night subtly yet suddenly became dawn on Wednesday morning. A dawn chorus occurs when birds sing at the start of a new day – it’s one of my favorite sounds to behold. Imagine that sweet sound now. 

Consider what the dawn chorus sings for the next part of your adventure on Earth. What magic does the sunrise offer? How are you now called to fulfill the promise of the vision for your life, your community, and the world? Like the birds at dawn, we let our hearts be full of gratitude and enthusiasm as the new day breaks, and we have a moment to collect ourselves before our journey continues. 

You are a unique, divine, perfect, unrepeatable way that Life/God is expressing itself here and now!  Remembering this Truth, you will be more inclined to act like it is so! As you live from this consciousness, you manifest joyous possibilities and unified conditions into existence.  Part of the eightfold path of Buddhism is “right thought” or “right intention.” Right thought dissolves harmful thoughts and helps develop a positive mindset, such as Metta (loving-kindness), fostering compassion for self and others.

Like Buddhism, the Science of Mind is a philosophy and way of life that focuses on training the mind.  Both have the same goal of leading individuals to complete liberation from suffering. Who doesn’t want that? Yes, please.

Our thoughts become our beliefs. Repeated thoughts become rooted in who we are and define our reality. The repetitive thoughts we have create our reality for us, which is really to say our beliefs create our reality.

Knowing this, what core beliefs have been creating your reality for you? Is it some form of not being good enough, not deserving success, fear of failure, limited time, too old or too young? A limited mindset keeps you locked in and prevents you from moving forward in the direction of your dreams.

Now is the moment you have been waiting for. The limiting thoughts and beliefs that popped into your mind after you read that last paragraph must be released to support you in living from your Divinity. Let your past experiences inform you and glean the lessons from them as you forge ahead, blazing the trail of your life in the eternal nowness of the moment.

New Thought minister, author, founder, and spiritual director of the Agape International Spiritual Center Michael Beckwith observed, “Don’t look for your dreams to become true – look to become true to your dreams.”

Some external force will not drop the dreams we have for our lives into our laps – there are actions we need to take. What action can you take today to fulfill your dream, calling, passion, and purpose? Remember, this is not a dress rehearsal for your life – this is your life – happening now, live and in living color. It’s time. Just do it.

Let’s thrive in 2025! 

And so it is.