Don't Waste the Holy Nights

Published: Tue, 12/20/22

December 20, 2022

Dearest Friends,

If you are among the many who have already subscribed to the Inner Christmas Messages, I am so happy you will be with me and all the others. I want to encourage you to read this post on the mystery of waste and wasting.

Thanks again for reaching out and for sharing your wisdom. I’ve been following your inner Christmas messages since I graduated from teacher training in 2009 and I’m always strengthened and clarified by them. Thank you for the light you shine in the world.

-Jennifer Robinson

Are you debating about subscribing to the Inner Christmas Messages?

Have you subscribed in past years and then not found time to read most of them? Or did you simply read them but not contemplate them and make them your own.

I understand. Ordinary life doesn't make room for our own inner development, especially during the Holiday Season. Unless we actively choose to devote our time to our own soul's.

I am blessed. This is the 19th year I have been accountable for opening my soul to the Holy Nights. Knowing that hundreds of other souls are counting on me to offer 12 inspirations, 12 invitations to the Threshold, the great liminal world between earthly consciousness and spiritual realities, keeps me awake and open to the mysteries of the Holy Nights.

I've sent out 252 Inner Christmas Messages in the last 18 years! Every year, I doubt myself but I also know that thinking my way to the Threshold and sharing the gifts I find there transforms my soul and my ability to love.

I have been following your newsletters and blog for quite some years now. And always loved every word , every teaching and mostly the warmth, the loving energy, and the soul nurturing emanating from you through them. Christina

Below I have written some thoughts on committing on your calendar your time for the Threshold attention and reading the messages each day. Determine your devotion to your inner development...it goes way beyond the fruits of meditation.

And then I share an imagination on the Gift of Waste and Wasting. Don't waste the Holy Nights.

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The theme for the Messages for 2022 is

The Living Gifts of Sweetness

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FYI: Timing & the Messages

There is no perfect time, best time, or bad time.

There is one dilemma I am not able to solve - the timing of the delivery of the messages. I don't have the time or the technology and if you can help with this, many would be very grateful. I send each message out shortly after midnight Eastern time zone. Depending on where on the planet you live, you may receive the message early or late, even the next day.

You may imagine the ideal time to read the message and work with it is after sunset when nature's day is dark, silent and cold. But you may struggle with the daily needs and rhythms of your day make the ideal unattainable. That's okay!

My solution is esoteric, imaginative and free from the senses. I suggest that no matter what your senses tell you about light, sound and temperature, that you build an inner Holy Night's imagination: Fill your soul with a focused light surrounded by a creative darkness, a cosmic silence filled with the soothing harmony of the sacred spheres, and a core warmth to overcome the chill of earthly distraction or cool the warm temperatures of the Southern Hemisphere. Within this imagination, any time is the right time for your Inner Christmas contemplations.

I do urge you to consider dedicating a particular time of day and a certain amount of moments (the 12 to spend on this every day during the Holy Nights). The imagination and dedication will strengthen your inner life throughout the year.

The Guide for Inner Christmas will help you set the mood and the intention.

In our busy, busy, very distracting lives we can postpone or forget our intentions for our inner work. If you find yourself neglecting Inner Christmas, forgive yourself and read them whenever. The Holy Nights have a profound spiritual quality to them, but your heart might find their energy flaming up in April or July.

You might also find it very helpful to commit to working with someone else, especially if your commitment to your inner development is fragile and easily forgotten. Having a commitment to sharing the experience with another, strengthens the commitment to yourself.

I also want to encourage you to leave comments sharing your experience with each message.

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Don't Waste the Holy Nights if They Have Meaning for YOU!

Waste as a verb or a noun has many meanings (I have copied the dictionary definitions below). I want to confront the human tendency to waste and create waste. My own tendency to waste and to create waste.

I am ashamed of how much I waste. I am ashamed of how much waste I am responsible for.

This is me, so you know I am not talking about waste in a material sense. I am talking about waste in and of my soul.

I can hear laughter in the spiritual world. It is almost a roar of cosmic humor and delight. And I can feel the shock and shame I am feeling start to lift as I face my wasteful self… and I want to laugh with the gods. Why the laughter?

For weeks, I have been contemplating the theme for this years Inner Christmas Messages: The Twelve Living Gifts of Sweetness for Your Soul. I woke up this morning and while my coffee was brewing, I sat at the kitchen table to read a few paragraphs in the most amazing and inspiring book I have read this year (On the Mystery Discerning Divinity in Process by Catherine Keller). The twelfth sentence I read (of course, it would be the twelfth…no wonder spiritual beings are laughing) was “Saving is not the opposite of damning but of wasting.” Keller is writing about the purpose of incarnation, our own incarnation.

Wasting!

Wasting!!

Wasting!!!

Now here is an example of how working with the theme of the Holy Nights, The Sweet Gifts takes hold. Thinking about waste and wasting is a living gift of amazing sweetness. The sweetness is the self-awareness and a new awakening to choice. With the awareness of waste and wasting, I can maturely choose to save or not save my inner life, my growing sense of the reality of the Spirit in myself and all others. I can choose not to waste love, and not neglect striving for freedom.

The Elohim created every cell in our body. Every cell creates waste. Every cell has a means to gather up was is wasted and no longer useful and to get rid of it. Our bodies have a lymphatic system and a digestive system to clear away waste and dispose of it.

But what about our souls?

What opportunities for self-knowledge have you wasted this year? Was it a wise choice? What risks have you not taken because you were afraid of being uncomfortable, of having to think in new ways? What wilderness did you not not explore because you imagined hungers and threats? What dreams have shriveled up and faded away?

Forgive yourself! You are human. You create waste in body and soul. What did the Gods have in mind???

The sweetness of soul is the ability to look into the shadows, to ask the difficult question, to not waste the waste by ignoring, or postponing, or medicating it. Soul Composting is a sweet gift.

So look at how you waste and neglect. Ask yourself lots of questions about wasting, neglecting, being half-hearted. What can you learn about yourself and transform?

The Twelve Holy Nights are a spiritual opportunity. Will you waste them? Will you neglect them? Will you dismiss you soul’s need for the active, intimate nourishment found only at the Threshold for twelve precious nights each year?

The Twelve Holy Nights are a gift of sweetness from the Spiritual World. Will you choose to not receive the living sweetness waiting for you?

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The messages are not magical and they do not promise miracles, but if you contemplate them, journal your thoughts, create an artistic image, or let them inspire a conversation with another soul, you will find simple epiphanies, new ways of understanding yourself and others, spirit and matter, joy and suffering. You will awaken Wisdom, Freedom, and Love. Just open the messages with spiritual confidence and relaxation.

And then, during the rest of the year when your soul might be struggling, you might find that one of the Inner Christmas Messages sings out to you offering just the right touch of sweet wisdom to ease your difficulties. Or you might find someone you love is feeling lost and you can offer them a new direction to guide them out of the darkness. The sweetness of the messages will last the whole year.

Along with the Messages, you will be invited to join zoom conversations for questions and sharing: December 24, 27, 30, January 2 and 5, It will be very sweet to have you and your wise heart on the zoom conversations where we share our experiences of the Holy Nights.

With loving warmth,

Lynn

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Lynn Jericho

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