"You are are free to start over. You are free to begin again."

You are free to start over,
even though you are waiting.
Even though you have uncertainty.
It doesn't matter how long you have been here.
It doesn't matter how many times you feel like you have failed.
Today is brand new, and so are you,
and it is filled with a thousand opportunities
to let the Light pour through.

And here's what I mean:

You might have moments this week that look nearly identical to moments from last week. Maybe your routine will look the same. Perhaps you will spend most of your time with the same few people or in the same rooms. Even here, there is room for a new way of seeing things. Even here, there is time to begin to look beyond the lies that your life is too uninteresting, stagnant, or dull.

Because no matter how eventful our lives are, there is always the possibility that we will feel stuck. There is still a chance that we feel like we can't move forward with a dream, or the process of healing, or anything else because it seems like the walls are holding us in a tight space. And when we feel like this, everything starts to feel the same. And before we know it, the walls around us feel less like safety and more like a prison. The season we're in feels less like preparation and more like punishment.

When these feelings arise, one of the best things you can do is make room in your life for contemplation. Contemplation is the ability to gaze as something until you see the inherent beauty in it. Look at the trees outside your window a little longer today. Listen to the lyrics of the song you love listening to a bit more closely. Pay attention to the distinct taste of the natural sugar in the fruit you just took a bite off. You may wonder what this has to do with starting over, and the answer is: a lot. Contemplation allows you to see things in a new way. And when you see things in a new way, you start to realize that after all, every day is still a blank page. Every moment is still a chance to start over, begin again. There is still newness here. There is still space for possibility where a change of course or a change of perspective seemed impossible.

You are worthy of starting over.
You are free to start over.
And I hope that gazing upon to the little things in a new way can remind you that

More tomorrow...
Sincerely,
Morgan Harper Nichols