Holiday Reflections

This is the time of year for reflection and goal setting.  

Around the world people celebrate holidays that bring light into the darkness.

If the room is dark, turn on a light.

Bringing visual light into a room where you are feeling scared or overwhelmed can calm you. The warmth of a candle this time of year holds many great qualities for a space and the people in it.

What do children need when they have a nightmare? A nightlight.

Finding your “light” (your talents and passions) and sharing them with others really does expand your joy for life and helps ignite more light in others too. 

It is only one small flame that is needed to light many candles.

Sometimes all you need to do to find your “light” is to remember what brought you joy as a child. What did you lose time doing? What was your childhood hobby?? Have you tried that activity recently? Just doing that activity can loosen the feeling of being stuck, and here begins the playfulness needed to brighten your light.

You may not see how your light can light others, so think of this:

In receiving a kind smile from a stranger, you feel warmth. You feel a brief connection to another person. You are not alone, you have been acknowledged. Haven’t you experienced this? Perhaps you were having a difficult moment and a stranger passed you with a warm smile, and you smiled back and then you felt lighter, you took a breath, you got back in the moment; all because one person shared light with you.

“I am a part of all that I have met.” ~Alfred Lord Tennyson