Today we not only launched a New Year but we also began a new decade. We can enter this new decade with fear, and trepidation, or we can enter it with love, and hope for the future. We may even be experiencing all of the above and more.
Let us now imagine this new decade as one where we finally find the answers for a peaceful co-existence for all of us and in a safe and protected environment.
We can do this by first listening to our hearts and letting the light within our hearts lead the way. When we get discouraged, let us look to our hearts for the answers and let our “Yin Spirit” shine forth by sharing the gifts of our hearts with others. Generate an optimistic attitude and see how it becomes contagious with those around us.
Let us also look for the true leaders out there, maybe not the well known ones, but those people getting the job done anyway. I can think of organizations that are working on the issue of world hunger, for example, The Hunger Project, whose leaders have found practical, sustainable solutions for many impoverished communities in resolving their own hunger.
There is also the Pachamama Alliance, whose leaders are working on preserving the Earth’s tropical rain forest by empowering the indigenous people who are their natural custodians.
In Chicago, a true leader, Marva Collins, went into an impoverished neighborhood of Chicago and opened The Westside Preparatory School. She applied “classical education”, which became a phenomenal educational and commercial success. She was then asked to supervise in many public schools.
These few are among hundreds of thousands of leaders working to improve our communities. Maybe it could be a New Years resolution to find these leaders in our own communities and support them. These individuals and organizations are the ones that have the actual proven results that work.
Our hope is in these leaders who on on the ground quietly getting the job done. May we find these leaders, celebrate them, encourage them, and support all that they do. They are the change that we have been looking for and the promise for a new world of peace and harmony. Welcome to this new decade of hope as we all create this change together.
Let this be our Harambee movement of the New Decade. Find the leaders in our own communities and, as in the African meaning of Harambee, let us “pull together”. None of us can do this alone but we can do this together. I will be happy to post the names of these individual leaders and/or organizations on my website under the banner of “The Harambee Movers”.
As Margaret Mead so eloquently said:
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed individuals can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.”
Panda Heart Publishing, Inc. wishes you to a joyous, healthy, and prosperous New Year and New Decade filled with love and peace. May we all find and radiate our own “Yin Spirit”.