Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Let YOUR Heart BE Light!


 

The Invitation

Of this Season:

Let YOUR Heart BE Light!

Returning

To

Childlike

WONDER

Celebrating

Gathering

With

Friends

Family

Neighbors

Our fury family

The whole of the World

In

This Season

Of

LOVE

PEACE

And

JOY

Allowing

Our calendars

To be jam packed

NO

White spaces

To sip IN

Be present to

The Beauty

Sitting in front of the Tree

Staring at the twinkling lights

Listening to our favorite songs

Being swept away

Instead of

Consciously

CHOOSING

What we want to do

And

What we don’t want to do

What’s FUN

What’s NOT so fun

Honoring our Self

Instead of being

LOCKED into Obligations

That strip

Our precious energy

Listening to our Self

Brings the MIRACLES

Of the Season

ALIVE

Like nothing else

As

Our HEARTS are LIGHT

In

Participating

With ALL of US

Embodying TRUTH

Who we are

Instead of

Feeling

OVERWHELMED

OVER-COMMITTED

Where we drag on bodies

Where our Hearts

Don’t want to go

Filled with dread

Painting on fake smiles

Pretending

Making “nice”

Playing the expected roles

The HEAVYness

That presses on our Hearts

Physically

Mentally

Emotionally

Spiritually

Is

The Signal

The ALARM

Blaring

Honking

Flashing

That

OUR JOY

Has been over-ridden

Has been extinguished

Forced OUT

Squelched

By

Our choices

To sacrifice our vitality

To deny

Our SELF

And

Those we LOVE

The greatest gift

(EVER!)

Letting our HEARTS Be LIGHT

Connected

Engaged

Expressing the BEAUTY

FEELing the awe and wonder

Breathing in the MAGIC

REMEMBERING our magnificence

The MIRACLE of our life

Of ALL life

LIGHTING this WORLD

With

OUR Heart

So Sacred

Ever-springing

From the well

TRUTH

PASSION

JOY

EXCITEMENT

LOVE

ENTHUSIASM

PEACE

FREEDOM

Be PRESENT

To Your Self

TUNE in

So

You can be the PRESENT

You GIVE

Generously

Showering the world

With

YOUR JOY

Do what ya gotta do

To FREE your Spirit

And

Let YOUR Heart BE Light!

Immediately following Thanksgiving Day, the conversations I had with clients, with neighbors, with friends and with strangers were breathy pleas for permission to NOT join the insanity of the Season.  This makes me laugh within myself as I so understand how life swoops in taking us into this and that.  Hell, I am the girl that sent out Christmas cards one season without signing them and had no freakin’ idea until a friend called and said WTF?! I know the insanity intimately and have lived it in the past.  But we must stop, pause and ask our Self:   What do I want?  This is an enlivening practice  every single day as we consciously enter our days knowing what we have control over, knowing our part in creating our lives and freeing our joy in living; but this level of mindfulness is essential as the pace of life picks up over the holidays so we must be especially vigilant NOT to give our Self away.  We must ask our Self:  What do I want for my Holiday Season?  And dare to tell our Self the (fu$%ing) truth and honor our desires as sacred.
I am clear on what I want right NOW and all the days of my life:  I want my heart to be LIGHT and as I write this, I am transported back into my childhood home on Tabor Street hearing the sweet serenade of Bing Crosby coming from the record player:  Have yourself a merry little Christmas...Let YOUR Heart BE Light…from now on our troubles will be out of sight…through the years we all will be together if the fates allow…hang a shining star upon the highest bough…and have yourself a merry little Christmas NOW.
This is my favorite Christmas song and what a wonderful reminder that life ever-fleeting is right NOW with no promise of tomorrow; and we carry within us all those who blessed our lives lighting our hearts with their precious hearts that are no longer physically here knowing the greatest gift they ever gave us as these energies remain with us still was their LOVE, PEACE and JOY.  I feel their spirits urging me on: keep your heart light no matter what! as your joy is what makes life rich beyond measure not the material gifts that are most emphasized.  I LOVE the JOY of surprises! And love to channel Will Farrell’s character in the movie Elf jumping up and down shouting:  Santa’s here!  Santa’s here!  Santa’s here!  Giving and receiving gifts is absolutely part of the fun and celebration, but we must never lose sight of the light within, our most precious treasure, our greatest offering Christmas day and all our days. 
The invitation this day and this holiday season:  Let YOUR Heart BE Light!  Light this world with YOUR heart, YOUR joy – sharing yourself generously fueled by the celebration of living, letting your FUN guide the way, knowing you always have choices and you are where you want to be with those you want to be with and experiencing the magic of connection to your Self, your Truth which allows you to fully connect with others.  MIRACLES flow without ceasing breath by breath.  Sip them in.  And your heart cannot help but BE light!

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