On my birthday last month, I decided to celebrate by walking a labyrinth. I have made a little tradition out of it because I find labyrinth walking a beautiful practice to mark time. (You can read my blog post “What’s a Labyrinth” if labyrinths are unfamiliar to you.)  I imagine myself going in at one age, and returning in the other. It’s like closing one year and opening a new one. It’s an opportunity to let go of any regrets and disappointments from the past year as I walk in the center, weave together gratitude and hope once I reach it, then open to whatever may come in the year ahead as I walk out. I’ve found it to be quite a profound and helpful ritual.

I am often working with the feeling of trust, and wanting more of it, so this year I decided to make the walk itself an exercise in deep trust. To foster this, about halfway through I closed my eyes as I continued to walk the labyrinth, whose path is lined by landscape stones on both sides. Any time I bumped into an edge stone,...