Morning Reading January 1

Hello friend—you’re receiving this email as a part of morning reading, a daily reflection on the parts of life worth living for that you signed up for sometime last year. I've got a laundry list of additions, designs updates, and website pieces I want to make, but ultimately, I just wanted to bring this back. Thank you for reading, and a very happy New Year. 

THE NEW PAGE

Hello friend,The problem with turning a new page is that pages have two sides.One minute you think you’re on to something new, next thing, you realize it’s just the other end of the same old thing.Even on the chapter breaks? Run your finger down that new page. It gives you just three of it’s sides. One edge remains just beyond your reach, pressed deeply into the spine of a whole series of pages that were, one time, turned over for the first time. There’s nothing sexier than a new beginning. Endless possibilities. An ever-expanding world where “could be” never has to answer to “is”. But then you look back at the pages you’ve already turned. And it’s hard not to feel like something has been abandoned. Like there’s a whole row of pages we’ve looked over in the belief the next page will really be the one.Life requires new moments. New times and places, seasons giving way to seasons, new years begetting new years. We can’t take them away. The ticking clock demands we look to all things new…… but run your hands down the page and feel the spine of the story. New pages. Old pages. Chapter breaks. Dialogue. Nonfiction. Lists. Blank pages. The book of you. Not abandoned, but turned over in perfect order—a series of new beginnings, each supporting the last, inexplicably connected, brought together to create this now—this specific now. So Happy New Year.JOURNAL PROMPT: When was the last time you felt like you really could change things without some external incident? Do you feel like you can change things now?