November 21, 2022

6 days until the beginning of Advent

Dearest, Sweet Friend, 

I hope you will join me on the Inner Christmas Journey. It will be a sweet journey this year. The theme for the 12 Messages from the Threshold is The Twelve Sweet Gifts.

Many of us have struggled with bitterness over the last few years. We need to spend the Holy Nights tasting the sweetness of the spirit.

Let’s look at the deed of “sweetening”  in the soul.  We don’t need a sweetness that briefly masks the bitterness of our times, of our lives. We need sweetness that reveals the lesson, the healing, the opportunity, or the wisdom that lives in the bitter.

I began contemplating this Inner Christmas theme of Sweetness when I was inspired to write about The Nutcracker Ballet. In this ballet, Clara, the adolescent girl, has a Christmas dream about visiting the Land of Sweets where she is crowned Princess. Prior to the the Land of Sweets she has seen her precious gift carelessly broken and fought the evil, greedy Mouse King.  Bitter experiences that she had to integrate in order to mature and find love.

Ah, maturity! The soul’s sweetness leads to maturity. Maturity doesn’t run away from the bitter. Maturity is the sweet wisdom that makes us creative, vibrant, relaxed, and confident when perceiving the unpleasant, the difficult, the threatening, the strange, the boring, and the overwhelming. 

Bitterness will strengthen and heal, but it is difficult to experience unless sweet is added. 

The Winter Solstice and Christmas come at a time of year that is often bitterly cold and dark. So human beings have always found a way to sweeten the cold, dark days with ritual and celebration. The Inner Christmas Journey offers an inner ritual and celebration.

Over the Twelve Holy Nights, I will be sharing thoughts on the sweetening gifts from the spiritual world. The gifts sweeten our twelve ways of perceiving ourselves, the world, and each other.

Inner sweetness melts the hardness of our lives. Inner sweetness provides renewal of the tenderness of our relationships. Inner sweetness is the source of our resilience. 

The Holy Nights always provide the spiritual renewal of our inner sweetness. 

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Please join me this year for the Inner Christmas Journey. Let me guide you through Inner Advent, inspire your Holy Nights with the 12 Messages from the Threshold, and then, support you in understanding the Inner Epiphanies that will manifest through 2023.

With lots of inner warmth,

Lynn

The Journey begins with Inner Advent and our recollection, review, reflection, and release of 2022  creating the open vessel to receive the gifts of the Holy Nights. There are two Inner Advent programs: My Year of Light and My Year of Darkness. Both reveal the meaning of your Inner Year through four inspiring modules. 

The heart of the Inner Christmas Journey are the Twelve Messages. This year blesses us with the 12 Sweet Gifts shared in the daily messages from the Threshold. 

Following the Holy Nights, we enter Inner Epiphany. We awaken in our souls the four epiphanies, each offering an awareness of how we nurture and manifest our destinies in 2023. 

Although we undertake the Inner Christmas Journey in the sacredness of our own solitude, we have the option to gather together over Zoom. What I love the most is the sweetness of the community that comes together over our zoom calls which happen every few days. We share our experiences, ask questions, and inspire each other.

To learn more and enroll in the Inner Christmas Journey click the button below. 

This Christmas offers the 19^th set of Inner Christmas Messages. Twelve pas de deux for you and your angel to dance. I love this image of dancing with my angel through the sweetness of the Holy Nights. Do you?