WAYS OF KNOWING 2008

As the new year offers us the opportunity to turn ever more toward our true selves, I wish for each of you a 2008 that will offer you time to honor your own "ways of knowing."

We have ways of knowing inside. We question them--wonder if these ways are right, if they work in the boxed-in-tight world we live in. But what I've found with my own path, my own ways of knowing, is I must honor them--the wild call in my heart to live fully and the hushed whisper to draw into silence to find more truth. I must honor all I know. I must not give in to anyone else's ways of knowing. Finally I'm realizing that listening to others' calls instead of one's own only leads to someone else being fulfilled.

I think this may sound a bit abstract. I can't find the fingerprint for what I want to say. I want to say this moment 11:06 p.m. on January 2, 2008, is what I've been given--it is my gift. I've given so many of these gift moments to others thinking they could do so much more with them than I ever could.

From now on, I'm going to call my moments, my ways of knowing, my own. I'm going to put name tags on those moments that say "Karen." I'm going to invite the moments to explode into firecrackered wonder across the sky of myself. I'm going to bow in humble gratitude to the richness the moment offers and to the many ways of knowing a simple breath contains.