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I feel like I am meeting my new self.
A fitting way to begin a new journal, a new year, and what will possibly be a new era if I let it.
I come before you now, on the eve of Epiphany, humbled and surrendered. Two things that I find become easier over time.
I'm really glad that I found this place- I had been searching for a new home for a while. Livejournal, of course, had been taken over by the Russians. And OpenDiary ended up bottom's up in a ditch. I needed a place that was brand new, but still feels familiar and maybe a little nostalgic. But also a place where I wasn't tethered to my past via posts from Diaries Past.
It feels good. There's some stretch and give in the fabric, but the cut of the cloth is soft and familiar.
Epiphany.
Epiphany// 1: a Christian festival held on January 6 in commemoration of the coming of the Magi as the first manifestation of Christ to the Gentiles or in the Eastern Church in commemoration of the baptism of Christ.
2: an appearance or manifestation especially of a divine being.
3: a usually sudden manifestation or perception of the essential nature or meaning of something.
I don't usually celebrate Epiphany, but this year it felt a little closer to home. Not that I think of myself as divine in any way, but maybe the things that I work hard to create have something of divinity about them. Especially if I allow myself to just be the vessel and not try to steer this way or that too much.
Perhaps in some small way this journal will be an epiphany of a kind. I think that would be something splendid indeed.
I intend to write every day until the next Epiphany. Even if it's only two lines, even if it makes sense to no one but me, even if I'll wish in time I had come to put down something more worthy of the time and effort it took to draw down the words from Heaven. Even if...
I don't promise anything, not to myself or to any reader, I can only remain myself. That is both sacrifice and vulnerability, and it's pretty much all I have to give at this point in time.
I hope you'll join me.
Until next time..
A fitting way to begin a new journal, a new year, and what will possibly be a new era if I let it.
I come before you now, on the eve of Epiphany, humbled and surrendered. Two things that I find become easier over time.
I'm really glad that I found this place- I had been searching for a new home for a while. Livejournal, of course, had been taken over by the Russians. And OpenDiary ended up bottom's up in a ditch. I needed a place that was brand new, but still feels familiar and maybe a little nostalgic. But also a place where I wasn't tethered to my past via posts from Diaries Past.
It feels good. There's some stretch and give in the fabric, but the cut of the cloth is soft and familiar.
Epiphany.
Epiphany// 1: a Christian festival held on January 6 in commemoration of the coming of the Magi as the first manifestation of Christ to the Gentiles or in the Eastern Church in commemoration of the baptism of Christ.
2: an appearance or manifestation especially of a divine being.
3: a usually sudden manifestation or perception of the essential nature or meaning of something.
I don't usually celebrate Epiphany, but this year it felt a little closer to home. Not that I think of myself as divine in any way, but maybe the things that I work hard to create have something of divinity about them. Especially if I allow myself to just be the vessel and not try to steer this way or that too much.
Perhaps in some small way this journal will be an epiphany of a kind. I think that would be something splendid indeed.
I intend to write every day until the next Epiphany. Even if it's only two lines, even if it makes sense to no one but me, even if I'll wish in time I had come to put down something more worthy of the time and effort it took to draw down the words from Heaven. Even if...
I don't promise anything, not to myself or to any reader, I can only remain myself. That is both sacrifice and vulnerability, and it's pretty much all I have to give at this point in time.
I hope you'll join me.
Until next time..
