12/31/2025
Dramatic cheesy post warning:
Every night when I come outside to burn one of my little slips of paper, there’s always one or two little nubs of paper that won’t burn. I’ll keep trying to light them or hold them with another paper I’m burning, but no matter what I do they won’t ignite. A few nights ago I gave up and just allowed all of the little pieces of unburnt paper to pile up on my plate I keep my candle on.
Tonight is the night I burned my last little wish. I held it over the flame and it caught fire way faster than I expected so I dropped it on the plate because it nearly burned me. Guess what. The flame spread to all of the other pieces of paper I had left. The most interesting looking glob of fire formed and devoured all the little pieces I was so worried about. All I had to do was let go.
Not to sound like a youth pastor but this was such a cool metaphor to experience in real time. It reminded me that Spirit/Source/the Universe/God is always willing and able to grant me my heart’s desires. My problem is I always want to put my hands in it and make it happen myself. Whenever I do this I’m basically saying, “hey guys I don’t trust you to take care of this so I’ll handle it from here”. Spirit says okay and leaves it to me to f**k up all by myself. Every single time something has worked out perfectly for me is when I finally threw my hands up and let it go. That’s when the magic happens and that’s what I want you to remember as we venture into 2026.
Everything you want is yours. But you gotta let it go first.