The Atonement Calendar

It is exactly as it sounds.

A calendar designed for atonement, gratitude, balance, and charity.

So, let's get right into it.

On the 31st of every applicable month I carry out, and hopefully inspire you, to do the following:

1. Charitable Works (Charity)

This can be through charitable works such as giving food, money, assisting homeless shelters, assisting animal shelters, assisting food drives such as Food Banks Canada, etc.

Essentially, we give back somehow to those that are in need.

2. Prayer (Gratitude)

   
   

Simple enough. Find a church, and pray. This is not about what we require, but to remain close to God, to show our appreciation and give thanks for all that we have. It can be a half hour, one hour, or even two hours of no phones, no computers, no outside contact. Just us, and God.

If you are not religious, don't stress, you can do this too. Finding a place that is quiet such as a place in your house, forest, meadow, or anywhere that essentially makes you feel closer to the Universe, to creation, to yourself, is what you are looking for.

This isn't so much about being religious as it is about being appreciative and grateful for the creation of life itself, and the blessing of the lives that we were given.

For the record, I personally am a believer of many teachings of many religions, including that of the teaching of Jesus, but am also a strong believer in the balancing of creation and the Universe, so don't discouraged by a belief that you have to be religious to do this, because you don't.

3. Walking (Atonement)

No life is without greed, lust, gluttony, etc. No life is without sin or is basked in purity, and because of this, it is easy to lose ourselves in our own desires, personal beliefs, hatred or disdain.

So we walk. Rain or shine, light snow or blizzard. We walk. Choose a trail, or a path, and start walking.

The idea is to make it worthwhile, not just a quick 5-minute walk to the convenient store down the street.

It should feel more like a pilgramige than a breezy quick walk. If it takes you about an hour to complete, you got the right idea.

This is a method designed for every 31st day of the year, except December 31st, which is called the "Renewal Day," or if you are religious, through similar understanding of an alignment with God through what we would call "The Rest Day," as the total number of 31st days equals to 7 days per year.

If you are familiar with what is written of the creation of the Earth (technically the Universe but we'll touch on that another time), then you are familiar with what is said of God and what God did on the 7th day.

Rest.

This day, January 31st, is simply a day of Renewal, Reflection, and Rest.

A refresh for the new year to come.

This can be done however you choose, but you might take this day to travel somewhere for the day, somewhere that you can be mostly alone, and take in the full extent of your surroundings. It could be a quiet AirBNB, a cabin, a hotel overlooking a beautiful landscape, etc. The idea is "full immersion" of appreciation so that you may reflect on the year that has passed.

Now don't stress if you have plans that night and can't go out of your way to travel a great distance to some remote part of a forest for reflection and silence. This can be done within your own home, outside in your backyard, or where ever else you feel you would be most relaxed, centered, and connected. The point is simply that wherever you choose, it is a place where you can best reflect on your year in silence.

Travelling to a cabin, hotel in the woods, or some kind of getaway location so that you can better reflect and truly appreciate all that has been created for us. An immersion of the extremely intricate and hyper-specific creation of nature, combined with the complex abilities in which we were so calculatedly designed and blessed with to also create ourselves, such as that of a hotel, cabin, landscape, etc.

Although, everyone is going to have their own personal preference for this day of Reflection and Renewal.

Here is a deeper look into what this day is for:

1. Rest: To rest from the year that has passed and give thanks for what was, and what will be to come.

2. Reflection: To reflect on the year that has passed. The memories, the people, the experience, and to learn through our reflection of the good, as well as the bad.

3. Renewal: To renew ourselves before the celebrations of a new year begins, so that we may start again refreshed, but with the intention and renewed purpose to be better than we were the year before.

   

   
   

It is through The Atonement Calendar that we can find balance, as the scales of Universal Karma escape no one,

that we may find peace, in knowing that even within a busy life, there will always be time to give back,

and that we find purpose through true appreciation, of life, and the life that we have been given.

Our way of saying,

"I am forever thankful."

It's easy to say "You only do this 6 days a year?," but when you stop to think about how busy your life gets, and how often things in your life are overlooked, or how many opportunities you have actually missed to assist others, or otherwise could have assisted others, but didn't, all because you simply didn't have the time, the money, or maybe you just weren't in a good mood that day,

6 days of Charity, Gratitude, and Atonement, should become that much more a blessing, rather than a chore.

As is the purpose of it's design.

This is not to say you can not give back more throughout the year.

Give as much as you want.

But if you fall behind, or feel like you fell short of all you could have been, or could have given back, or feel like you haven't truly taken the time to be appreciative of this life you have been given, or whatever it may be,

This is your balance.

Or at least it could be, if given the chance to succeed.

Maybe you're not religious. Maybe you already go to church every Sunday. Maybe you don't believe in God, or Heaven, and just think you end up in the ground when you're dead.

Honestly, that's okay.

I'll never be the one to judge based on your personal beliefs, unless of course it's clearly truly evil, than yeah, I'll probably judge you. 🤷‍♂️

That being said, regardless of your choices, my personal opinion, or the opinion of others, through all my research, knowledge passed on through others, and information passed on from the Universe and even from within myself, I can honestly say that a higher power does exist, and as I understand, that system (whatever it may be) is 100% going to judge you if you're a piece of shit.

And that shits on you to figure out and make right with.

So good luck.

But anyways, this isn't strictly about what you believe, or designed to be only for those that believe in God (as previously stated), or only for Catholics, or personal beliefs, or whatever else society likes to conjure up to exclude or provide privy to a select class,

This is simply about balancing yourself out, and finding balance within the Universe.

This is about levelling out the scales, before one side tips too far to one side, because I assure you, Universal Karma is very real (religious or not), and if you do not find balance between selfishness and selflessness, the Universe will always even that out for you.

But maybe more on Universal Karma another time.

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So let's do a quick scheduled review of what we've covered:

Every 31st day:

1. Charitable Works (Charity): Give back to community, people, animals, etc.

   
   

2. Prayer (Gratitude): Spend 1 - 2 hours in a church (not during service), or somewhere you feel most connected (if you're not religious), to show appreciation through silence and internal gratitude to creation (and creator, if that is your belief) and the blessings you have been presented, gifted, etc. The outside world takes a backseat here with no phones, no reading, no nothing, just be still, be thankful, reflect, and appreciate what you have so that you may leave this space to receive more in gratitude and further appreciation.

   
   

3. Walking (Atonement): Walk, walk, and walk some more. Walk off your sin. Walk off your guilts. Walk off your concerns and worries. Just keep walking. Think of this as a cleansing experience, one of which we all seem to require.

December 31st:

1. Find a location for the day (and/or night), and complete the following:

   
   

   1. Rest, after the long year you've had.

      
      

   2. Reflect, on the good, the bad, and the lessons.

      
      

   3. Renew, your mind, your spirit, and yourself, and leave behind the year passed with new lessons and experiences attained, to enter the new year greater than you once were.

      
      

And that's it!

I know it doesn't sound like much (or maybe it does, I don't know), but either way, trust me, it can be worth it.

I work anywhere from 12 to 16 hours per day, add in daily workouts, errands, house and animal chores, and food breaks, and include my daily sleep schedule of anywhere from 2 - 5 hours of sleep per day, and it's easy to see how finding time for anything outside of my daily schedule is near impossible.

And the thing is, even if your schedule isn't as, ummm, for lack of better works, slightly psychotic, it's still busy.

We're all so incredibly busy, and finding time to even stop and just be thankful can seem like a "I don't got no time for that" consistent phrase that so many of us use,

and yet,

it's so very necessary for mental health and universal balance.

In truth, I simply sought an answer to a question,

and this was the direction in which I was led.

John, Chapter I:

Verse 31

"And I knew him not: but that he should be made manifest to Israel, therefore am I come baptizing with water."

Genesis, Chapter 1:

Verse 31:

"And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day."

"Seek, and You Shall Find (the Answer)"

(to be continued)

Original Publish Date: 05/20/2025