Dearest Friends,
When you imagine yourself in relationship to your inner development, your spiritual life, and the sacred times of the year, what do you feel?
I find three feelings in my soul: yearning, needing, and longing. Do you feel these, too?
Most of the dictionaries offer very similar definitions for yearning, needing, and longing, but if you look at the etymological roots of these words, you will find very meaningful distinctions.
Let me share the distinctions with you and encourage you to journal about each of them to prepare for the Holy Nights between Christmas and Epiphany. Your journalling will create an inner clarity in your soul and deepen the gifts of your Inner Christmas and any other time of the Inner Year.
Yearning, Needing, Longing
Do you feel a yearning for the Threshold where self becomes spirit if only for a moment. A moment that nurtures your soul forever. Yearning comes from the old German for “eager.”
Journal about what your soul is eager for.
Do you feel a need for receiving unconditional inspiration? An inspiration that will provide a new way of understanding yourself, others, and the future? Need comes from the German word for “danger.”
Journal about what is essential for the lasting integrity of your soul.
Do you feel a longing to be bathed in the Great Ethers of Warmth, Light, Tone, and Life-force? To feel renewed in every aspect of your being? Long as a verb comes from the German word for “reach or extend.”
Journal about what you are reaching for or how you want to extend your soul’s capacity for truth, beauty, harmony, and goodness.
Don’t resist or diminish your yearning, need, and longing. Sink into them and find yourself lifted up during the Holy Nights. The Beings of the Spiritual World are waiting with gifts for you to fulfill your yearning, meet your need, and embrace your longing.
Sign up for the Inner Christmas Messages and receive a daily message each day of the Holy Nights to inspire you with all that you are eager to receive, all that is essential to your integrity, and all that will extend your reach into spiritual realities.
