At the Unitarian Universalist service in Santa Fe this morning, the last Sunday in 2018, the Rev. Gail Lindsay Marriner lead congregants and guests in a change-of-year exercise inspired by her interpretation of the book The Everything Seed, by Carol Martignacco. She spoke of constant change and development in the cosmos, in the world, in society, and in humans.
As part of change and development, we were urged to contemplate and choose a behavior, a pattern, a situation, an action, or an attitude from this concluding year that we are ready to give up. By relinquishing one thing, we can then release energy to choose a new intent for the coming year.
We each wrote on tissue-thin pieces of paper the things we want to release, and we wrote on sturdier slips of paper the things to intend to do. Then we walked outside and burned the flimsy papers, releasing the old behaviors to the wind. And we pocketed the strips of sturdy paper to use as bookmarks or tuck into a wallet or notebook, that we may come upon them in the new year and check to see how we are doing.
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