Let there be light

For most of us light means hope. Winter Solstice moves us back into the season of growing daylight, and candles are lit for Christmas.

There’s also a much more symbolic perspective to light. Light that shines from within. Lightness of being.
It’s the proverbial torch we carry when we help others in need of support or bravely take the road less discovered. We have a light bulb moment.
And, of course, there are the lights of our lives – the ones we love, the ones that make our hearts sing and souls lighten up.

Sometimes light can be so bright it blinds us for a while. It may even be harsh and reveal what we’d like to keep hidden from ourselves and from the world. Once light enters our darkness, nothing looks the same. We just have to let it in. No matter how scary, usually the monster under the bed is just an untrue thought.

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, ‘Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God.
Your playing small does not serve the world.
There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you.
We are all meant to shine, as children do.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we’re liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
(Marianne Williamson)

Thank you for sharing your light with me over the past year. I wish you a blessed holiday season.