The important Christmas Holiday Season is nearly here, and I am very aware that it holds mixed meanings for many of us, or perhaps no real meanings at all. It may be a great time for lights, bells and gift buying but it may not hold deep, spiritual meanings if we are not among those who espouse the Christmas mythologies. Nevertheless its powerful overtones are with us for the duration, and we might be wise to find a personal theme that holds goodness for us.
The Christ Child...
Perhaps the story around the birth of the Christ child could be transferred into a kind of inner, new birth within us, an insight, an idea that begs for our attention. Every possibility awaits our recognition of it, and most go by unnoticed. What if we opened ourselves to a brand, new mind set, perhaps one of giving unexpected good. It could involve money, but perhaps more welcome would be time and love spent with someone who needs what we have to give. And there are always those who need our gifts, maybe even family or friends.
Flighty fol-de-rol...
With so much good decorations, wonderful colors, familiar and not so familiar music on hand, plus wonderful fragrances and other flighty fol-de-rol, it would be a profound shame not to let them awaken in us what is commonly called “the Christmas Spirit.” In a world that is beset by so much fear, anger and dismay, wouldn’t it be a good thing to at least add some affirmation that the Divine Good is still with us, especially in the form of those of us who do, indeed, bring the spirit of a new day with us?
Well being in their bones...
It’s not only little children who happily greet the bringers of love, encouragement and a sense of well being in their bones. It is beleaguered adults as well. Bah, humbug! does not have to rear its head, but “Here’s to a wonderful Holiday Season” very well can!
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