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this is how.

every whenever, you will be called to start a new life. some new lives start on the outside, like switching jobs or moving cities, which will change you eventually, from the outside in, while others will move you from the inside out.

these new lives may arise unbidden, they may have been prayed for over a period of years, while others will be experienced as initiations that arrive suddenly, like a thunderclap that jolts you into the next scene. the curtain rises and there you are, a deer in the headlights, set pieces in shambles. the entire next act is having to put your life back together, with everyone watching from their seats.

some of your new lives have been desperately waiting for you to build the conviction that you are, in fact, ready for the leap, while others couldn’t come soon enough for you to fly on untested wings. you’ll learn what it’s like to be old and unwilling to close a chapter and what it’s like to be young and ready to write an entirely new book.

these new lives are all around us and within us, like little sprouts budding out of the soil. you might look around and not know what’s new and what’s worn its welcome. deep inside, you’ll feel both: the stirrings of what’s to come and gratitude for what has now bloomed into harvest. and this is how we honor the seasons of our lives. we allow the energies of winter and spring, summer and fall, to visit us in their own time. you turn the wheel and the wheel turns you.