It’s a dark, gloomy, rainy Advent Sunday morning here in North Carolina. My mood on waking was also dark and gloomy. Both perfect for the moment and an inspiration.
I made my coffee and went into the living room. Because of my mood (did I have a bad dream?), I knew I had to light candles. First, the Advent Candle, then I went around the room lighting all the other candles. The room is still dark but it is filled with flames of light and warmth.
My earthly mood is still dark, but like the living room, there are flames of light and warmth appearing.
With all the years of my life (tomorrow is my 76th birthday) my earthly moods and emotions and narratives have fluctuated, but in my soul I have always had a flame.
As I write, I realize it is this inner flame that glows brighter during Inner Advent, Inner Christmas, and Inner Epiphany. Finding the meaning of my year gone by, receiving my inspirations of the Holy Nights, and imagining the purpose of my new year during this time is taking a journey to the flame at the center of my
soul.
So as I am about to begin my 77th year of this lifetime, I am heart-thinking of all that lives in the flame within my soul.
I am blessed in having an Advent birthday. I don’t feel I would have imagined and manifested the Inner Christmas Journey if I had been born at any other time the year.
If you haven’t enrolled in the Inner Christmas Journey, please do. It is a very special gift you give yourself, you give to the flame of your own significance.
