The Universe Giveth

BY: Mark

The last six months have been filled with, in a few words, many “opportunities for change,” and I can’t say that all of them have been warmly welcome. But I have–eventually–come to see them all as manifestations of the Universe offering me a variety of tests and trials as a means of re-focusing myself on what is truly of value: namely, my own self and the luminous lives of those who are near and dear to me.

The magickal part of it has been the realization that all of existence is but our individual perception, and whatever we are faced with can be dealt with in a multiplicity of ways, but ultimately, the choice is ours to face these things positively. To grow is to live; to hide or flee or otherwise pretend we are not changed by what the Universe gives to us is to die. Maybe only a little bit, but we do die nonetheless.

Life is worth every single excruciatingly raw second of it. Because it makes you realize what is important, what is a distraction, and what truly offers you peace and love and illumination.

So, I look forward to 2012 as a year of self-actualization, of realization of my own potential, as the singular opportunity that it is.

I hope you embrace it similarly.