Hello and welcome to 2025!
How nice to finally greet all of you on the “other side” of the New Year shift! For many of us, 2024 seemed a long and arduous year, and at least in my own case, challenged by apparent complications and some setbacks. Yet, just as in the cases of difficult or challenging prior years, we have managed to come through—even if feeling a bit frayed around the edges. It is finally time to drop the challenges of the year that has passed and welcome each other to another new beginning. Indeed, may we encourage each other to rise to the challenges that will surely present, while living our lives with new fervor and ever greater commitment to our further spiritual awakening.
In fact, Master’s theme for this month is “New Beginnings,” and we are actually starting off the year a little differently. Master will not be recommending a specific teaching from the past for our edification this month, nor will he dictate a lengthy new teaching. This is due at least in part to the fact that I am up to my eyeballs in boxes, and the VFF office has still to be moved, including not only the furniture, equipment, files, etc., but hundreds of CDs, and hundreds of taped lectures made prior to the arrival of digital recording! For their protection, these had to be stored in a climate-controlled facility, and must now be retrieved, moved and reassembled.
While Master will be dictating a special New Year’s message offering his thoughts about growth in 2025, it will not arrive by January 1st. Hopefully, it will be available during the first week of January, and it will be offered to anyone interested at no charge. The daily thoughts for this month will appear as they normally do, reminding us to remain focused on new beginnings all month. Indeed, for any real change to occur in our lives or in the world, we must first make the transition in our minds.
Once again, welcome to 2025. May we fill this year with kind thoughts, gentle words, and elevated activities as we, together, generate a new beginning for our work with Master. May we never forget the kindness he continually showers upon us, and may we follow His remarkable example in discovering our True Nature. Have a new year filled with Master’s grace!
Sending blessings to all,
Kathlyn