Just Counting the Days?

 

Groundhog Day 2013:

Punxsutawney Phil

Does Not See His Shadow

 

What is the forecasting fad with the groundhog?  If he sees his shadow, then it is weeks more of winter.  If he does not, then Spring comes sooner.  I remember the year he did not see his shadow and we had two February blizzards.  That’s when I turned to The Farmer’s Almanac! 

That’s social custom for you.  They dress up in top hats and heavy gloves—to keep from getting bitten—the crowds gather, the cameras roll—and presto, Groundhog Day!  It’s utterly amazing how we set up this mile-markers—the rites of life. Think of all the mile-markers we create to count time. That first child, the 50^th birthday, marriage and grandchildren—on and on go mile-markers. 

Now comes the question.  What do we do to set up the mile-markers toward our personal growth?  Not just the passage of time—as if we could count SuperBowls (and I was around for the first one!).  But for growth?  There’s a series of books out there called “Younger this Time Next Year.”  Not bad, but you are still counting time, rolling it back so to speak.  

So Which Are You Headed?
 

 So why not set some direction--maybe some goals--for how you'd like to see yourself grow.  
Take on listening skills for the Spirit within you?  For those around you?  In other words, as you walk through linear time--whether it be an early spring or not, you are still deepening your life.  Call it time for growth or spiritual time. 

The point is that just as they have gather for 127 years to watch Phil, you can take one day and concentrate on something that gives you life for living.