"Everything is on its way to somewhere, everything."

December ushers in the end of the year. While it is a time lightened by the festivities of the holidays, it also shepherds in another opportunity. We are given time to consider where we have been and what we are feeling as we shed another year of living. For many of us, the closing year may have had more than its share of challenges. For all of us, there will be the chance to decide what we will do with what has happened to us—good or bad. In those moments of reflection it is good to remember that we are a work in progress. Our lives are changing and expanding with every experience that comes our way. All of it, every kind and joyous moment as well as every painful, difficult choice carries us along in the flow of all life. Nothing stays the same, including us. If we can remember this we may be able to let go of our preconceived ideas of why things may have gone wrong or right and open up to wondering instead about what we have learned and can carry with us as we journey on. What gifts are we going to be able to absorb into ourselves from all the living we have done? What places in our hearts are different now?