I'm a little late wishing you all a Happy New Year and that's mainly because I've been thinking hard about what would make a happy year for us all.Every media outlet and just about every conversation seems to be about the world financial crisis, the horrors of conflicts and the great personal misery these events can cause. How would it be possible to find happiness within such turmoil. And isn't it somehow wrong to enjoy even a moment of happiness when so many people are in despair?
Great thinkers and spiritual leaders have grappled with this question. Viktor Frankl, a psychotherapist imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp found that the inmates who had a reason for living where most likely to survive the internment. Those reasons could be as simple as watching a flower grow and blossom. Often the best reasons are the ones which take us outside ourselves.
The one reason for life which transcends all others is love. The unconditional love of Creator. The love which on our deepest level connects us all. Love which is always enduring and which can perform miracles.
Can 2009 be a year when we open our hearts to unconditional love, for ourselves and our fellows, no matter how challenging the world may seem?
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