More Thoughts on the Holy Nights

Published: Tue, 12/19/17

December 19, 2017

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For those who haven't yet joined, here are more thoughts on the theme for this year and a picture of how the Holy Nights change who we are.

12 Holy Nights Full of Wondering

The theme for 2017 Inner Christmas Messages is

12 Acts of Wonder

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Why Wonder as the Theme

for the Inner Christmas Messages?

Since I received the inspiration for this year's theme for the Inner Christmas Messages I have been deeply challenged. Why Wonder? It's been two months of wondering what is there to write about wonder? Here are some of my thoughts on why 2017 is the year of Wonder.

The world and my soul needs wondering.

2400 years ago, Socrates said "All wisdom begins in wonder." The world urgently needs a new wisdom, so we best find our way to a more conscious capacity for wonder. To spend 12 sacred nights devoting our soul's attention to wonder may bless us with new wisdom in our thoughts, feelings and deeds.

Most people think of wonder as a state or experience...a noun. Yes, wonder brings joy to our weary, anxious and despairing lives and that certainly is a wonderful thing, the soothing feeling of wonder. But the wonder Socrates was speaking of and that we will be working with during the Holy Nights is the deed of wondering...the active verb that leads to wisdom, takes strength and imagines the unknown.

Most people feel wonder is a childlike innocence, surprise and delight. The wonder of the Holy Nights is mature and developed. Children perceive the earthly wonders naively. We will be engaging wonder beyond perception. We will see wonder as the activity of penetrating, even permeating through committed questioning, expectation, attention and listening.

Wondering lives behind all wisdom. Let us wonder at wondering as the deed of the of the Holy Nights. Only through conscious and mature wondering will we find capacities to see our world, our future, each other and ourselves wisely.

Christmas Never Changes... Do You?

The Holy Nights Change Me!

Through the changing questions and imaginations living in the Holy Nights each year, I change.

My soul changes and my body changes. And I also realize my experience and feeling of my humanity and my individuality changes. All in good ways.

What are the good ways I change?

My soul becomes more innocent. I practice wondering at myself. I am looking through a lens that is ground by the angels. So each year I find my capacity to know truth, feel beauty and do good seems to shine more brightly…fewer scratches, less cloudiness.
My body seems more mine and much more harmonious. My soul and my body feel more intimately necessary to each other. Incarnation and embodiment feel more real.
I become more and more aware of the bond I have with every other human being (regardless of who they voted for or if they left their homeland or tried to blow it up or they cut in front of my car and made me slam on my brakes.). So I stop judging others for how different they are from me or how they behave or think or vote. We are the Family of Humanity. I learn to love more.
And I become more aware of how I am Lynn and there has never been another Lynn and never will be. And no one will ever know all of me no matter how much they love me. I will never know all of me. I learn to embrace my solitude and the vast, unknowable complexity of my individuality and I find more freedom to be me.

And each year I feel a little more awake to my spiritual core, the gifts of divine beings, and the mysteries beyond the perceptions of my senses.

How do the Holy Nights change you?

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