Happy Holidays!
This holiday season may we pause for a moment to reflect on the many blessings that embrace our lives. Each new day is a gift ~ a present ~ wrapped just for you. And yet...most of us awaken each day to many gifts that we all too often leave unopened.
All experiences contain a gift. God is. Love is. God is in the present. When I am not resting in the present, I am not resting in the Presence, and thus, I cannot receive the presents that the present holds.
I’ve noticed that many of the Christmas stories that we have been brought up with tend to reveal a similar theme, that of transformation. There was Ebenezer Scrooge, a mean-spirited and cold-hearted man who is transformed through the power of Love.
George Bailey, sad and disheartened by the ways of the world, we watch as he returns to the remembrance that his is indeed, A Wonderful Life!
With anticipation we see Rudolph overcome his fears and move on to lead his fellow reindeer. And I mean really, we knew all along that the Grinch just could not steal Christmas!
And then…there is the Christmas story: The angel Gabriel comes to Mary and tells her of a new birth. Mary represents the miraculous as she expands in consciousness to say, “Yes”.
The characters in these beloved stories came to a point of decision, and yes, transformation. Like them, we too may be facing such a fork in the road. Will we constrict into old habits and old ways of thinking? Or, will we take Mary’s lead and expand to say, "Yes! Something new can be born in me!"
We stand on the threshold of new beginnings. We are creating the future now. May we decide to create something new, to begin again, to perhaps stand forth differently than we have in the past?
Let us seek to heal old wounds with family, friends and others who have touched our lives. Let us be willing to love more fully, forgive more freely, appreciate more deeply, and to serve from our highest level of being. Easier said than done of course, but this is our task.
Ultimately, it doesn’t matter what we owned, accomplished, published or saved; what matters is whether or not we let Love transform us, and extend through us. What do you want to carry into the New Year? What do you want to create? The time is now.
Love whispers to you now:
This Christmas give Me everything
that would hurt you.
Let yourself be healed completely
that you may join with Me in healing.
Trust the process of life
to take you to your highest good.
Rest in the present
in peace.
Much Love to you and yours!
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