Welcome to 2020. It’s the first day of the new year. It’s the first day of the new decade. And not to be trite, but it is, indeed, the first day of the rest of your life. We love New Years celebrations – and waking up on January first of a new year – because of the possibility they represent. The chance to start over. Begin again. Repair or repent for past mistakes. Move forward.

On December 30, we did a meditation about gratitude for endings. Today we’re focused in the opposite direction, on gratitude for things just beginning. They may be things we have planned – or spontaneous or unplanned new things that come up this year. Our goal today is to set our minds toward gratefulness for all the new things that 2020 will hold – both the ones we’re already looking forward to, and the ones that may surprise us.