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January 4, 2016

I love being out with my husband. Not because we go to nice restaurants or anything, though sometimes we do, but more because I hear so many new stories about this man I have known for over 20 years. More surprising really is sometimes when at synagogue together, I hear him start to talk about me to the whole congregation. This past Friday night,  it was about a little thing I introduced to our family for New Year’s Eve.

It was neat to hear him recount this new little game of writing two things on two pieces of paper. Neat to hear how he remembered it, but really neat because I had no idea he was listening.  On one piece, we wrote something we wanted to get rid of, and on the other, something we wanted to have happen in this new year. Then we threw both the papers into our fire.

This was not a planned out game, nor an original one. The point that I wanted to emphasize is that both negative and positive things have the same weight in the world when we attach too much importance to either one. Change is good and desire can be good, so long as we are in observation from our place of clarity, and not out of a reactive attempt to fix what we might deem “bad” in our lives. The distance we can have from these labels can help us breathe into letting go and manifesting.

When I listened to my husband explain this midnight exercise, he spoke of it as tool to unravel that which you will BE over the year. In a non-resolution type of way. I liked this take on it a lot, and realized how nice it was to have a partner from who I could learn about my own path through his own unique perspective.

Put it out there thing. That which you want to remove and that which you most want to show up in your life. And then let it go. Quietly, maybe this will help us observe our choices and those of your loved ones, anew.

in appreciation,

Michelle

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