// Auld Lang Syne
i’m a terrible blogger obviously, since this is my first official one. i decided that the starting of a new year would be a great time to start this…almost as a new years resolution. Auld Lang Syne. this is a very familiar song that people sing around the new year. but what does it mean? i decided to look into the meaning of this phrase. it originates from Scotland and is a way they would start out fairy tales…”In the days of auld lang syne…” it basically means a long long time ago, or the days of long ago and that got me thinking…so much stuff happens in our lifetimes that sometimes it is overwhelming. Deaths, births, break-ups, relationships, new jobs, new seasons of life, etc. We experience the best of the best and feel the cold and lonely emotions of isolation.
This is what makes us human.
This is what makes us feel alive.
This is mutability…change.
The only thing constant in life is change. We can always know that wherever we go, change will be there. Does that mean that it is easy? No. Does that mean that i have to like it? No. But trying to live life avoiding change isn’t life to begin with. Sometimes a bad change happens in our lives, other times, a good one. But how does this tie in with Auld Lang Syne? Well, when we tell our life stories to people, how do we talk about them? Is it with passion or are they almost hated and we refer back to “the days of long ago” instead? ”You have no idea what i’m going through”… you’re right, i don’t, but a life lived in the past can’t have a future. It’s self-inflicted paralysis. This next year we have to live life to the fullest and embrace the change that happens. We can’t let things that happen keep us down. If (when) we are crushed in life, we mourn if mourning is needed and we know that we will be taken care of. We, realizing the entire time, know that the sun will rise the next day and choose a life of moving instead of one of paralysis. i pray that 2010 brings you changes that are good in your life and that you can see that we are not islands during the hard times.
Matthew 6:25-27
“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?”
