Holidays are a time to replenish the batteries, by recovering if you feel tired of routine or physically tired and become new or as if new again. Refilled with a fresh supply of energy. Renewed my spirits in the country air.
Holidays can also be a time to renew yourself, by resting, by doing things we usually don't have the time to do, or doing new things, or doing nothing, or reading. This can be regenerating and rejuvenating.
Renewal is also about renovation. It is a time when we can renovate and refresh our house, as I did, with new painting and new thatch roof and refurbishing and transforming rooms with little changes that bring more space, and make a part of the house more enjoyable.
It can be about repairing, restoring, rebuilding something old and turning it into something renewed like a piece of furniture, or some clothes.
Renewal can be about replacement of things and people. It can also be about getting rid of old things we haven't used for ages and leaving space for new ones. Renewal can be the occasion to revive old friendships, to re-establish old relationships.
In fact, if we look around us, our physical universe and nature, there is only one underlying reality present everywhere: change. As Einstein said, matter is not created, nor destroyed, only transformed.
Cells in our body are constantly renewed, in fact there is nothing about the universe that isn't changing right now. Life flows in an ever changing succession of transformations, an eternal recommencement.
I'd like to end this toast with a couple of questions you may ask yourself if you are interested in bringing renewal into your life.
What is it that I've been holding on to that I need to let go of?
What is no longer serving me in my life that I need to release?
I invite you to join me for a toast to RENEWAL
Very inspiring Anna!! Thanks for sharing ;))
ReplyDeleteRenewal can also mean not letting go the things which we no longer need, but making them beautiful over again for a more meaningful purpose...