This is episode 1,670. Welcome to the Daily Meditation podcast. I'm Mary McLeckley and I welcome you here as you get ready to slow down and connect to the best part of who you are. In today's episode, you're going to discover an affirmation as you put

closure on this year of 2018 and open yourself up to something brand new in your life. And as you

consider putting closure on your year and the events of this year, your regrets,

your aspirations, all that this year represented for you, I want to share with you some wise words of wisdom from C.S. Lewis.

C.S. Lewis was a very highly noted British writer and lay theologian. He taught English literature at both Oxford and

Cambridge University. He wrote such plays as The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.

And a lot of other series

for children, including

The Chronicles of Narnia.

He

included a lot of spirituality

in his writings.

And so meditation for you may be a spiritual journey or it may be simply a way for you

to calm your mind and body.

But what meditation will do for you is provide you with more clarity, more peace.

And when you have this clarity and this peace, you can focus more on what it is you want your life to be like.

So here are some words from C.S. Lewis. He wrote,

Every time you make a choice, you are turning the central part of you, the part of you that

chooses into something a little different from

what it was before.

And taking your life as a whole with all your innumerable choices, all your life long,

you are slowly turning this central thing either into a heavenly creature or into a hellish creature,

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