This weekend, we set our clocks forward one hour to “spring forward” for Daylight Saving Time.

I believe this past weekend marked the beginning of a new era for many people, including me. I felt such an energy shift that on Sunday morning, I was literally running laps around my house because I was so fired up. I used to call this “church jogging” because people would run around the sanctuary when they got excited and wanted to praise God.  I church-jogged for about five minutes because I felt such a strong shift in energy.

A Great Awakening

Religious Revivals have been called Great Awakenings. During these times, people set aside dull, lifeless, and ritualistic religious routines to take part in stirring church services that lead them to repent of their sins and turn to God. Revivals are Spirit-led affairs with people running to church altars to get right with God, fiery preaching, loud prayers, and crowds coming to see what is happening.

I am in the midst of my own Great Awakening and personal revival. I have set aside my dull, lifeless, and ritualistic life routines in favor of Spirit-led movement forward in my life. The Great Awakening I am experiencing has nothing to do with organized religion because I have been there and done that.  What I am experiencing is much deeper and more glorious than anything I have experienced before, because it is between God and me.

I am waking up and realizing that what I want is possible and will happen. As the very wise Sister Overall told me many years ago at Shiloh Church, “It’s already done.”

Synchronicity and the Life Threads that may be revealed this year

I first learned the word “synchronicity” from Bishop Joseph Garlington and became fascinated by it.  I asked ChatGPT for a definition of synchronicity in plain language.

Synchronicity = a coincidence that feels meaningful, even though there’s no clear cause linking the events.

We tend to notice synchronicity during major life transitions because we are more aware and perhaps more inclined to seek meaning in certain events. In the last four to five months, I have noticed much more synchronicity in my life, leaving me to wonder what it means or whether I am just delusional.

There are certain threads that have been in my life for a long time, but none of them has ever tied together or made much sense. However, I sense that this may be the year that life threads are revealed and come together in a beautiful tapestry.  What does it mean? I have no clue. I just have a suspicion, and I need to be ready when they are revealed.

Three Keys to Getting and Staying Ready

I believe in getting ready so I can stay ready, and then I don’t need to get ready. I have three keys to getting and staying ready.

Slow Down
Stay Flexible

Listen to the Whispers

Slow Down

While I know the season has shifted and I have already moved on in my head, my reality has not caught up yet.

“How much longer before we get cooking?” I keep asking myself.

It is such a weird space to be in because I know there is more, I sense there is more, but I can’t see it yet. I am eager to race ahead to see what’s next, but that is exactly why I need to slow down, because running ahead without any direction is a great way to run into the ditch or off the cliff like Wile E Coyote.

I have told myself that I must hold on until June 30 because, if it were up to me, I would quit certain endeavors to explore some of these life threads and try to figure out how everything fits together.

It is exactly the wrong thing to do.

Alex Holliday said it correctly at the Tending the Inner Flame workshop: I don’t need to force anything. Trying to force my way into the next era and figure it all out is a great way to make a mess of things and further delay the threads coming together.

Stay Flexible

I wrote in a blog post that I have no concrete career goals. I have concepts of goals, but I do not know what is next. I know what I don’t want to keep doing and what I may possibly want to do. There is an element of liberation and freedom in not knowing what is next, because then I am open to possibilities I have never considered.

In this era of my life, I keep sensing that I need to be flexible. My life will be unconventional and most likely complicated, and I will need to learn to compromise and be flexible. I would rather my life be complicated than to be bored to death and suffocated by a check-the-boxes life.

Listen to the Whispers

I’ll give insight into the whispers I am currently hearing.

Prepare (there are certain habits that I have been compelled to develop)

Be patient

You must not move forward impulsively, in anxiety, or amid chaos.

Move in silence

Protect your energy. Be mindful of the right connections in this season.

This is my year of yes, and so far, I have not said yes to anything that is challenging or really scares me. I think it’s because God knows I need to get my mind right to say a firm “Yes” and then knock it out of the park. Right now, I think I am ready, but I know that I am not there just yet, and so I remain patient because I don’t want to live out any more cautionary tales of “This is what NOT to do!”

May this new season be one of rebirth, restoration, revival, and renaissance!!