Opportunity and possibility… the promise of 2008

Written by: Karen Wallace
January 1, 2008

Happy New Year from all of us here at The Calm Space. We hope the promise of 2008 is fresh and alive in your heart throughout the year, and wish you a year of miracles and magic.

Endings and beginnings… As one year ends, another dawns - fresh and crisp and full of opportunity! I love how the new year gives us a real sense of a new beginning, with boundless opportunities waiting for us.

As we step out into the freshly dawned 2008, can we take the time to engage with those opportunities, to notice them so that we make the most of every moment ahead of us. Our contributors all offer different ways to do just that this month.

This month our special prize is simply divine - don’t forget to register to be in the draw to win this gorgeous jewellery courtesy of Anne Maybus of Beauty Banquet.

Happy New Year!

Káren ♥

A purse full of gifts to take with you into 2008

See that door?See that door?

It’s the door of opportunity.

Your door.

All you need do is step up, grasp the handle and open.

Are you ready?

See that door?

What lies on the other side is the rest of your life.

The possibilities of your life from this moment on.

Beyond lie the endless opportunities that are yours for the taking.

If we consider the vast number of options available to us, we’d freeze in overwhelm.

Luckily, all we need is to take one step. Make one decision. Put one foot in front of the other. Choose a path and see where it leads.

As you choose your path, remember the immortal words of Robert Frost…

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveller, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I–
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference

~Robert Frost

See that door?

Beyond it is your path. Your first step of the rest of your life.

Only you can open the door.

Now, before you go rushing off to open the door and start running down that yellow brick road on the other side, I’ve a little something I’d like to give you.

Call it my New Year gift to you.

It’s a small gift, but it comes straight from my heart to yours. Something to make your steps a little lighter. A gift to make your choices clearer.

Your gift is a little ‘travel pack’ to take with you. Just a few bits and pieces I have put together for you to help chart your course - small enough to pop in your pocket.

In this gorgeous black velvet purse you’ll find:

A packet of possibilities. Tied up with a beautiful satin ribbon you’ll find all those wonderful things you could do, be and have in 2008.

A cup of hope. You’ll know a sense of optimism and faith that all will be well in your world.

A spray bottle of action. To use in measured doses, punctuated by periods of rest. Without action, possibilities will not turn into realities.

A tube of courage. Enough to fill your heart and make the right decisions - for taking action when you must.

A tin of curiosity. Open up for the ability to ask ‘why?’. And to ask ‘why not?’

A spoonful of challenge. A small dose of tension and darkness to overcome, so that you may better appreciate and recognise the good times.

A crystal decanter of love. Fill your soul to overflowing anytime you need it with love, laughter and joy - life is for living.

take the path less travelledSee that door?

Go.

Open.

Explore.

Relish the opportunity to create your new year, just how you like it…

I wish you a safe and wondrous journey through 2008. May your path be strewn with rainbows and your pocket full of opportunities.

Karen Wallace - encouraging you to find your own calm space | http://www.thecalmspace.com/about#karen

Comments

2 Responses to “Opportunity and possibility… the promise of 2008”

  1. ChrisNo Gravatar on January 2nd, 2008 9:15 am

    What a stunning invitation- seductive loving and creative!
    You clever writer you!

  2. AngelaNo Gravatar on January 4th, 2008 8:36 am

    Thank you for this gift Karen. The imagery is just beautiful, and powerful. I keep coming back to it.

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