​TOAST

 On this New Year’s Eve
I cast my mind back and remember
all who are no longer here.
I think of my Mum and my Dad.
I remember my Granny, Aunts and Uncles.

And I remember different times,
different places and different scenarios.
Each New Year’s Eve has been filled
with thanks and joy, or with sorrow
or relief that certain things have passed.

And as we look forward tonight
we will raise our glasses and our hearts,
and wish each other happiness.
Just like we did with you all
on many a New Year’s Eve before.

​QUANTUM PHYSICS

It is easy to explain
what God is,
for God is in everything.
God is everything.

How can you not
believe in God
when you, yourself
are part of everything?

God is mega!
In every galaxy.
Beyond the heavens.
And we too are part of this.

This is our eternal gift.
To be with an infinite
ever expanding God.
On his journey.

For we will grow beyond
all human imagining,
as part of everything.
That is God.

​PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE
1.   What does your journey as part of God look like? 

REPOSITIONING
 
We can  get stuck in  cumulative thinking.
We keep thinking ‘what’s next?”
We move forward step by step,
based on what we have done before.
This is called cumulative thinking.
 
But the New Year is a chance for us
to reposition where we are.
In other words, we can step
outside of this cumulative process.
We can find a better or a happier way.
 
So, move outside of  your cumulative process.
Start from this moment.  
Start afresh from now.
 Imagine this is the first day of your new life
 and plan to go where you should be.
 
What has gone before no longer matters.
You do not have to behave
as you’ve always done.
 You do not have to carry the past with you.
You have a chance to reposition everything.
 
This New Year is much more than
the charting of a new path.
It’s also a mind shift.
It’s freeing up your thinking
and allowing yourself to start again.

​TIMELESS

I used to resent losing my time,
giving up an hour or a day to others,
for activities I saw had little value.
I now realise, that it’s not
my time to lose or to give up.

I used to regret wasting my time,
sitting doing nothing,
when I should have been so productive.
I now realise, that it’s not
what I think is productive that matters.

​PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE
1.  How do  you view time -  as a commodity  or a gift? 

MANKIND

Karma tells us that everything we do
has a positive or negative reaction.
All we do determines our fate in this life,
and what we become in our next life.

In every moment we can
spread love and kindness, or not.
In every moment we can
become love and kindness, or not.

It is the core law of humanity,
building kindness and becoming love.
It’s how we are meant to think
and act in every single moment.

​ PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE
1. What   will you become in this life and  in your next life?

PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE
1. How will you use your 'extra  time' this year?
2.  Where will you find a space for yourself?​

CHRISTMAS DAY
 
The message of Christmas Day
is to go beyond
everything that we think we know
and trust in a place
that we have never been,
and a life we have never seen.
Just like the new born baby
in Bethlehem.

​GUARANTEED DELIVERY
 
This exercise is for those
waiting for Santa tonight.
It’s a busy time for him and his team.
Can you name Santa's ten Reindeer?
 
There’s Dasher and Dancer.
Prancer and Vixen.
Comet and Cupid.
Donner and Blitzen.
 
Ok, that eight!
Rudolph is number nine and
and perhaps the most famous
because of the song about his red nose!
 
And then, of course, there's Olive,
‘the other reindeer’
(just sing Rudolf’s song!).

CHRISTMAS GIFTS
 
I have received
the gift of understanding,
the   gift of knowledge,
the    gift of truth,
the   gift of insight,
the    gift of time,
the   gift of places,
the gift of serving,
the gift of writing,
the gift of purpose,
the gift of others,
the gift of friendship,
the gift of support,
the gift of love, and
the gift of being with you.
 
But more than these,
I have been given the gift
of how to use these gifts.
And the daily help to do so.
 
You see these are not momentary gifts. 
 They are lifelong gifts
that grow and produce outcomes.
They are the blessings and architecture
of a life I could never imagine.
 And all of these are poured out for me
​every single day.

​PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE
1. What gifts have you been given?
2. How  will you use these today?

​ZOMBIES

Take ten minutes each day
to reflect, review,
and to do nothing.
 
Get off the tramlines.
Escape from the zombie box of doing.
Be yourself.
Explore your future.
 
Leave the world
that others dictate behind.
For this is not your life.