Passing on the Hope...It's very early morning and most of the world is still asleep. I look out my window to see it is still dark and a soft sprinkle of snow covers the ground. I pour coffee into my favorite Christmas mug, light a candle and spend some time alone to reflect and ponder about all that is and all that will be. People tease me that I am not a morning person, but this is a precious time of the day. It is a time when the day is new and we can focus our intentions on how we want to participate in the coming day. But it is also a time to be open to wisdom, guidance. and the awe and wonder of this world.
Tomorrow marks the beginning of December, a month that calls forth peace, joy and light in the darkness of the year. It is also the month of miracles. While these things are always here just waiting for us to embrace them, we often push them aside unable to take them in. But December calls them forth again like a cherished friend.
Not only this month, but this day brings brings gifts and miracles into our lives. Surely the kind that is wrapped in pretty paper and ribbons, but more so the kind of gift we carry in our hearts. The miracle and wonder of the oil that burned for eight days, the royal son born in Bethlehem and the return of light on the longest darkest night of the year and yes, most of all...the light that shines within all of us.
It is time for all of us to get reacquainted with our own light and begin to let it shine for all to see. It is fitting that just as I am witting this, something has called my attention to the window where I see the the first light of the day. It is just a sliver, but it is beautiful as it sits on the horizon. This light is beautiful in all of us and as we let it shine, it brings the gifts of peace and joy, opening us to the place inside us where hope resides.
I would invite you to helps us remind people of the hope that is within them and comes to them. Read the following blessing for yourself and for someone else. Each time you do this you help brighten the light in yourself and the world
A Blessing for Self
Light a candle and say: I give thanks for the light that shines in me from the Source of all Life. Let the light that is within me increase and grow to extend kindness and compassion for all.
A Blessings for Other
Light another candle and say: I give thanks for the light that shines in (persons name) from the Source of all Life. Let the light that is within (persons name) increase and grow to extend kindness and compassion for all.
Blessings to you as you let the light shine within you and extend the light out to others.
Sandy and Paula
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Institute for Peace and Joy 17305 Cedar Ave. Suite 230Lakeville, Minnesota 55044 952-435-4i44
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