New Year's Blessings 2012

New Years Day 2012

Blessings for a wonder-full New Year!

Actually, I think New Years day is really the day after the Winter Solstice but nothing wrong with honoring it twice!

Today we honor the start of a new year, a new ‘you’ – still in the seed state, but now something new will begin growing within the womb of our awakening evolution. The seed of the future year, infused with the fruits of the previous year, is awakening - its purpose will form and grow protected by the deep stillness of winter.

May our purpose grow strong in the coming New Year, may it be informed by the wisdom and achievements of our past and the potentialities yet to come in the future, so that in the Spring we may rejoice in the rebirth of yet another new dimension of our being and purpose in life.

A blessing for this may be found in the Martra/Wazifa: Ya Razzaq - Ya Mussawwir
(The Divine nourishing and fashioning our being)

The New Year prayer of Hazrat Inayat Khan:

O Thou who abidest in our hearts,

Most Merciful and Compassionate God, Lord of Heaven and Earth;

We forgive others their trespasses and ask Thy forgiveness of our shortcomings.

We begin the New Year with pure heart and clear conscience, with courage and hope.

Help us to fulfil the purpose of our lives under Thy divine guidance. Amen