Human life runs its course in the metamorphosis

between receiving and giving.        

Goethe

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  The Eleventh Gift ~ Music

Coming out of the chaos of the tenth holy night, what can soothe your sense of self? Don't they say music calms the savage beast?

There are so many rhythms and tones to the music of the cosmos. Each resonates in the unique human being. That's you and me! We are the grand symphonies and repetitive jingles of the cosmos.

 But we must also remember that music tells our stories melodically in little ditties, in cool jazz, great waltzes, seductive tangos, even in the agitating hiphop.

What are the melodies of your I-ness? Stop right now and ask yourself if you were  a song or a melody what would you be?  I long to be a waltz like Shall We Dance from the King and I or maybe something like Cole Porter's Begin the Beguine or the sweet round "White Coral Bells."

Too often I am some disharmonic cacaphony - a mix of screeches and moans - causing life to shove fingers in her ears.

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What inspires you to make music?

How do we receive and give melody, rhythm, tone to each other?

Who plucks your strings? Who plays your keys?

Whose strings are you willing to pluck? Whose keys are you willing to play?

Can you play the major or minor reality of another? More importantly can you play your   own minor and major keys with equanimity and fierceness?

Or another musical reality...

There are certain relationships that are karmically designed to awaken you to your song. Your song, not the song of your family or your friends or your enemies, but the song that is uniquely and joyfully you. These are not your easy, happy relationships. They are your composing relationships. Stop resisting them.  Let them compose you your melody.

As we approach the end of the Holy Nights, spend sometime listening to the music of your soul, the future, the cosmos.  Hum the melodies as you fall asleep.  Now that song is a true gift.

Each message has a topic based on the theme of the year. I offer a creative exploration of the topic, and a number of questions to consider around the topic as a way to find your individual relationship to the topic and a new, clarifying, liberating perspective on yourself.

Reading the messages is not the experience of the Holy Nights. The Holy Nights are a cosmic experience that can only be felt within your own soul. Be confident and know they are YOUR Holy Nights.