Monday’s Meditation: On Endings and Beginnings

September 17, 2012

Today is the Jewish new year, and if that’s not your bowl of Trix, then it’s Monday. Both, as it turns out, qualify as beginnings; the end of one year, the start of a new one. The end of an old week, the beginning of a fresh one.

There is an awesome power in this imaginary division line of time.

Life is change. It is changing. It is growing and learning to be in a different way than you were previously. And there is no more useful tool available for you than the marker line: here ends one phase. Here begins another.

Without such boundaries, we might simply coast on, without any imposed, purposeful opportunities to change.

But endings and beginnings allow us to evaluate ourselves: I see I have been this way. I realize I have been using these tactics. I recognize I have been engaged in this process. And then: I now pledge to be this way, instead. I aim to use these tactics. I desire a different process.

Our lives become defined by these divisions in time. But mostly they have been imposed upon us- the naturally occurring beginnings and endings of a year or a life. And while those are valid, so, too, are any endings and beginnings you create for yourself.

It doesn’t have to be new year’s before you decide to make resolutions, to go to the gym every day, call your granny on the regular, act a certain way in business and family life. You may draw that division line whenever you choose. And it will be real because you believe it is.

Every moment is an opportunity to start fresh. Every ending opens the door to a whole new way of being, of believing, of acting, of speaking. And every beginning is the gift of being able to do it better, more graciously, more patiently, more maturely, with more goodness, kindness, and intention than you did it before.

 

 

3 Comments

  1. ashley on September 17, 2012 at 11:13 am

    love this. what a great reminder for EVERY DAY. so often, we think the situation has to be just right for things to change, but as my mama always told me, for things to change, first i must change.

  2. Dawn {The Alternative Wife} on September 17, 2012 at 3:54 pm

    This is awesome, Annie! I actually really like divisions in time whether it be a new year, a new month, a new week or a new day. It’s a forced stop and wait a minute. Check out where you’ve been and where you’d like to go. xoxo

  3. Emily Marie on September 17, 2012 at 8:42 pm

    Aw – I love this! It’s so true — and so important to reflect upon every day!

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  1. ashley on September 17, 2012 at 11:13 am

    love this. what a great reminder for EVERY DAY. so often, we think the situation has to be just right for things to change, but as my mama always told me, for things to change, first i must change.

  2. Dawn {The Alternative Wife} on September 17, 2012 at 3:54 pm

    This is awesome, Annie! I actually really like divisions in time whether it be a new year, a new month, a new week or a new day. It’s a forced stop and wait a minute. Check out where you’ve been and where you’d like to go. xoxo

  3. Emily Marie on September 17, 2012 at 8:42 pm

    Aw – I love this! It’s so true — and so important to reflect upon every day!

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