From our Spiritual Leader, Brent Uzzell
                      

    Be It Resolved

 Every year at this time, we collectively give ourselves conscious permission to start over. We wipe the slate clean and, as we did when we were children, gleefully proclaim a cosmic “Do Over”! We approach the New Year declaring a fresh start. We fill the day with “resolutions” to be, to do or experience differently. We allow ourselves to ignore our previous experience and programming and proclaim a new experience.

 res⋅o⋅lu⋅tion –noun

1. a formal expression of opinion or intention made, usually after voting, by a formal organization, a legislature, a club, or other group. Compare concurrent resolution, joint resolution.

2. a resolve or determination: to make a firm resolution to do something. 

3. the act of resolving or determining upon an action or course of action, method, procedure, etc.

4. the mental state or quality of being resolved or resolute; firmness of purpose.

5. the act or process of resolving or separating into constituent or elementary parts.

6. the resulting state.

 Many of you know by now that I do not believe New Years follows Christmas by happenstance. I believe it a conspiracy of our psyche, our higher self, our Christ Nature, to help us realize and actualize a fundamental truth: that we are always at the point of creation. We are always free from the actions, thoughts and feelings of the past. We are always free to re-create each “Now” moment as it truly is, a unique moment in time that will never again be repeated and is ready to be filled by me with whatever thought, action or feeling I choose.

 We know this already and have formalized it for the one moment in time that we all agree that this is allowed – New Years. We call it a “New Years Resolution”. There is nothing magical about the day January 1^st except that we collectively give ourselves permission, and place great intention, in consciously creating (or re-creating) our lives. And we allow ourselves to believe, for however briefly, that we can. We resolve to be or do differently and we expect a positive result.

 Re-read the definition of resolution above and notice numbers 3, 4 and 6. I find it really interesting that our determining upon a course of action, our firmness of purpose and the resultant state are all implied within the word. Somehow, we instinctively know that we are, or at least can be, free of our judgments of our past. Somehow we instinctively get it that we create our world. … I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. (Jer 31:33)

 In the month of January we will explore together what this “clean slate” or “fresh start” looks like and how to realize it in our experience. We will place our intention on living in the fresh start, not just for a day, but all year.

 This month we offer two classes, both designed to move us forward in beginning again; to re-create our lives in fresh, purpose-filled and meaningful way. I hope you will join me in the journey!

In Love, Light and Service

Brent