My practice of acceptance and letting go became fragile.
As 2024 comes to an end, I find my thoughts reflecting on the interwoven topics of acceptance and letting go.
Both are essential for balance in our relationships,
with ourselves, others and a higher power.
Judaism offers many spiritual practices that nurture such a balance.
However, this past year,2024, presented unprecedented challenges and complexities.
The traumatizing events of Oct 7th shattered my ability to find solace in these.
My practice of acceptance and letting go became tenuous.
I felt like they belonged in a pre-Oct 7th world.
The Power and Challenges of Acceptance
Throughout, my own journey, I have found the power of acceptance to be essential in my transformative spiritual growth.
As a spiritual guide, I know how valuable acceptance can be in adapting a more peaceful and joyous life.
Yet in 2024 the echoes of personal losses, political conflict, antisemitism and winds of war, acceptance was too distant to be heard.
The devastating occurrences of Oct 7th left many, including myself, here in NYC coping with a strange feeling of loneliness.
But amidst the pain and trauma a new community surfaced.
Unforeseen devasting circumstances brought us together.
This newly created community, Run for their Lives. reminded me of a past lesson:
The influential and inspirational power of community—even among those who may hold differing views.
The collective power of acceptance offers strength and resilience through our shared values not our differences.
The Blessing and Beauty in Letting Go
Letting go is not easy.
However, when reframed as making room for new, not giving up, solace may be found.
In 2024, I learned to rearrange relationships with myself and others.
The fragility of life brought to the surface by the events of Oct 7th, taught me to let go of what no longer served my spirit.
At first, letting go felt like a great loss.
Yet quickly it became a precious gift.
New and beautiful connections were formed, while older ones found a way to begin and heal.
I let go of what I wished could have been and made room for what perhaps could be.
Entering 2025
With one step in the door of 2025, I carry the messages and teachings of 2024 close to my heart.
Acceptance and letting go hold a power that is essential to our well-being and spiritual resilience.
With each act of letting go, there is an act of acceptance.
Bringing us closer to more moments of joy and the blessings life has to offer.
Both, letting go and acceptance are a great source of strength at times when our spirit is frail.
My wish and prayer for 2025:
May the gifts of letting go and acceptance guide us.
May peace embrace all those suffering from the evils of war.
And may basic human rights be given to all of humanity.
Please 2025, bring love and compassion to all corners of the world.
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