Full Cycle

How often have I seen and honored the cyclical nature of things. How there is beauty to be found in the bud, the growing and closing stages, even disintegration, the completion of the rose cycle and the beginning of the compost phase. Still at Christmas, when the world is cold and moving slow, when Spirit plays tug-of-war with Greed, it's hard to see the year winding down, the ending of so many things, and find closure with people, places, times and things. I hope to let go, as easily as this flower does, to what no longer serves me. I wish to allow the natural order of things. I desire to see the good, find the beauty, accept serenly, the Divine Order of everything. All I want for Christmas is ...inner peace.