Cultivating peace in daily life.

12-31-2009 Start the New Year with a Vision of Peace

The history of 2010 is not yet written.  Many new and enriching possibilities lie ahead for all of us.  At the threshold of a New Year, we have a unique opportunity to create a guiding vision for the year, to actively shape our lives in the direction of what's most important to us.

New Year's "resolutions" are a common theme in our daily conversations at the close of a year.  Yet, as we resume our daily routines, they can easily fade.  A true vision, however, energized by the heart's longing, will grow in strength, and sustain us through periods of challenge and change.


We invite you to start the New Year by renewing your vision of peace, and to let it influence your choices and actions in 2010.  Read one of our favorite visions for peace.


And now let us welcome the New Year--
full of things that have never been...
Rainer Maria Rilke
Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin. ~Mother Teresa