9th Holy Night - The Impression of Faithful Responsibility

Published: Wed, 01/02/13

January 2, 2013 - The Ninth Holy Night

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During these last four Holy Nights, we will be living into the paternal and masculine impressions of I that live in our souls whether we are men or women.

Reflecting on the Christmas Nativity, we see the child and the mother surrounded by the paternal and the masculine. Tonight we will look at the Joseph impression, the twelfth impression will look at the God the Father impression, in between we will look at the shepherds' impression and the magi's impression.

Your Inner Joseph and Faithful Responsibility

Joseph is the not-father father. His responsibility is to protect, but not possess, the Divine Child. Is that not the most profound responsibility? Joseph's faithfulness needs to be deeply felt in each of us during the Holy Nights.

The Inner Joseph Impression of I gives us the soul experience of being unselfishly protected and supports us in taking responsibility for the divinity or spirit incarnating in others and into our times.

How often to we think deeply about Joseph? Tonight find Joseph in your soul, see him in your willingness to protect another's destiny silently, often in the background, unnoticed.

What is protection?

Protection has its root in the Latin verb, tegere - to cover. I think of other verbs - shield, shelter, watch over, safeguard, secure.

I remember bursting into tears as a young girl when I heard the Gershwin song, "Someone To Watch Over Me." Tonight I realize there was no faithful, protecting Joseph in my childhood and how much that lack led me to many aspects of my will life. Writing these Inner Christmas messages is a Joseph gesture: I write to faithfully and responsibly protect your experience of the Holy Nights each year.

For me and for you, finding the Joseph impression of I within our souls, means the inner sense of being unselfishly protected within can reach out to the needs others. We do not need to identify as our own the thoughts, feelings, and deeds of those who we protect with an Inner Joseph consciousness.

Suggestion:

Did you have a Joseph figure in your childhood?

How do you look beyond what you possess as your own to see what, with faithfulness, you are willing to protect?

How does this paternal I live in your thinking, your feeling and, most of all, your will?

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The Inner Christmas messages are not the inner work of the Holy Nights. They are invitations or gateways into the your inner work. Let them inspire you.

Each message addresses 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. Let them serve as a way to find your individual relationship to the topic and a new, clarifying, liberating perspective on yourself and the mysteries of being human and becoming I.

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