Yearning for a new way will not produce it. Only ending the old way can do that.
You cannot hold onto the old, all the while declaring that you want something new.
The old will defy the new;
The old will deny the new;
The old will decry the new.
There is only one way to bring in the new. You must make room for it.
-- Neale Donald Walsch
Perhaps this is why we have times of renewal, that are seemingly built-in -- like New Years Day, the seasons, or that restlessness we all have somewhere within us to begin again. Everything moves and changes, whether we like it or not, because it is how growth happens.
As I leave 2017 and enter a new year, I recognize that this is happening in me. It is, in fact, making room in me for something new. And, I don't want to resist it, because it is the necessity of regeneration in me, as in all of us.
