The First Holy Night:

At Home with Newness

When the gods created human kind the first home was the house of newness.  What else could it have been?  

This is the home of Nativity, of births and beginnings.

It is the most intimate of the twelve homes, like the walnut shell, embracing all the curves of our current consciousness, perfectly.  But it will not allow us to evolve and become different. The great gift of being human is to not only be unique in our individuality but to also evolve and become through our individuality. Otherwise we would only need this first home!

Ironically, this is the home that must always be cracked apart, the one we must always be leaving, the one that always grows too confining in its amazing comfort  and fit. A bird would never spread its wings and meet its destiny to soar and sing if it remained within the egg.

Like the pains and efforts of birth, moving out, challenges and strengthens. You must move out so you can learn to breathe.  

How at home are you in the irony of the home of newness...it is the most comfortable home and the most uncomfortable. In this irony we will understand the experience of Eve, willing to risk the perfection of paradise, to find knowledge of self and the world.  

Every time you feel sublime comfort inside your skin, you know your soul has returned to this home for a brief and delightful sojourn.  We can only hold this experience for so long, before we must break free once again.

Has your thinking gotten too comfortable, too certain of its truth? Your  feelings... are they to familiar and uninspired? And is your will unwilling to be creative in its deeds?  Time to leave home! 

I've attached a word doc with some questions to guide your Holy Nights contemplations.  

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