Closing the year in great style with an abundance of love, gratitude and joy!
We used to follow a New Year ritual of greeting the rising sun of the New Year and offer our thanks and prayer coming year. We often brought offerings of plenty. That requires either staying up or waking up early enough, to travel to beach - Coney Island or Rockaway- and braving the cold wind and weather to watch the rising sun. My Honey was even interviewed by the local newpaper in one of those ventures.
We used to follow a New Year ritual of greeting the rising sun of the New Year and offer our thanks and prayer coming year. We often brought offerings of plenty. That requires either staying up or waking up early enough, to travel to beach - Coney Island or Rockaway- and braving the cold wind and weather to watch the rising sun. My Honey was even interviewed by the local newpaper in one of those ventures.
We haven't practiced that ritual for the past 3 years. One year we were away and not near a beach. And the following years have been too too difficult to venture with our small son. We are considering bringing in the New Year in this way again for 2011.
As for now I am preparing my prayers of gratitude for what 2010 has brought to me and the petition prayers for what I wish 2011 to bring.
Maybe you can greet the rising sun out of one of your wonderful apartment windows and go to the beach in the summer! Prayer does not need location just intention.
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