An End-of-Year Toast of Blessing

Jay Berghuis
Dec 31
2 min read

Updated: Jan 7

It’s the last day of 2024.

CARPE DIEM!!!

After a week of lying low and moving very slowly, my soul has caught up with her body. I’ve been wallowing in deep waters like this amazing tree on the Kwanza river—a tree that has watched terrified slaves float by shackled to boats and each other, a tree that has known unfathomable violence and the peace of wild things, and yet keeps growing strong and majestic.

In the midst of this paradoxical turbulence, I’m hearing the River of Life’s song-lines for new direction out of an overflowing heart. Out of the confusing valleys of transition that we are all caught in, I sense gestation has occurred and that new forms of communal experience will be our teachers.

Once again the amazing Laura Weaver has captured the words for me in her poem Winter’s Dreaming:

“Here, in the still point between

Hibernation and emergence …

What it is to trust this gestation –

The fullness of this space

That will birth us again

From mystery into form…”

After a year of following and flowing with Spirit around many complex back lanes of soulful embodiment as a human in this life, this is my prayer on Dec 31, 2024.

May I continue to live in the lineage of the Ancestors who have gone on before and un-earth those fresh forms of communal soul that long to emerge. Out of this attuned and constantly re-aligned cosmic connection, may the fullness of our hidden and yet-to-be-experienced Love be poured as an offering back to our precious globe, each of us supporting one another in finding our own curiously unique and precious gift of life.

Like this bountiful plate of Thanksgiving joy, I’m almost ready to put words a plan to offer each of you a specific INVITATION to join me in a year-long virtual circle of trust.

Tune in to my next series of posts.

A brand-new chapter for 2025: Communal Healing – “All Flourishing is Mutual.”

A prayer-filled toast to you and yours:

May this coming year bring you more love than you ever dreamed possible. So, so, so much love that it pours in fresh rivers of healing blessing to all those who follow.

I chose this image especially – Uli and I – grandparents’ hands – with one of our precious grandsons in the background.

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