In the part of the world where I live, the days feel painfully short right now. I just want to put on PJs and cuddle on the couch at about 4:30. Outside it’s cold, bare, and looks like a black and white photograph. Sensitive friends of mine are under their full-spectrum lamps or turning on their HappyLights.

Yet underneath we are hopeful, waiting. It’s almost here. The Light.

Many are expecting Christmas and celebrating the birth day of one they call the Light of the World. Other festivals around this time welcome the Goddess who brings abundance, celebrate the victory of Good over evil, remember the possibility of enLightenment, and appreciate Nature’s renewal and the return of more sunLight.

As above, so below. As in nature, so are we. This is why we all celebrate.

May we acknowledge that we are in the dark. We may feel this time as an emptiness, an expecting… or cold. This time of year, this time in our personal lives for whatever reason, and also this time in the evolution of our species, is perhaps a dark time. I recently came across this quote:

“We have bigger houses but smaller families;
more conveniences, but less time;
We have more degrees, but less sense;
more knowledge, but less judgment;
more experts, but more problems;
more medicines, but less healthiness;
We’ve been all the way to the moon and back,
but have trouble crossing the street to meet
the new neighbor.
We’ve built more computers to hold more
information to produce more copies than ever,
but have less communications;
We have become long on quantity,
but short on quality.
These times are times of fast foods;
but slow digestion;
Tall man but short character;
Steep profits but shallow relationships.
It is time when there is much in the window,
but nothing in the room.”

 

~authorship unknown 

from Sacred Economics by Charles Eisenstein

 

Also in Sacred Economics, Charles Eisenstein writes:

“Ultimately, work on self is inseparable from work in the world. Each mirrors the other; each is a vehicle for the other. When we change ourselves, our values and actions change as well. When we do work in the world, internal issues arise that we must face or be rendered ineffective.” 

 

Yes, we are in the dark right now. But let us expect the coming of the Light, and work towards it in ourselves. Keep one another warm, with Love, caring, blankets, food, smiles, communication, prayers, blessings. We all can give something, some fuel to the fire. Turn on your HappyLight inside yourself and then go about your day radiating It to others. Say I love you, spend time, hug, chat, linger and appreciate a meal or cup of tea. Walk across the street, and say Hello. If you are in a dark place, reach out to another. If not, recognize your abundance and give of yourself. We can be as the enlightened masters if we see the Light and share the Light.

May we intend this in ourselves and for the world.

We are just in the dark.

Turn on the Light.