This has been a year of discomfort, of feeling anxious and angry, without consolation or power. We have witnessed hatred, perhaps felt hatred as a tiny heart-eating worm or a huge soul-drowning tsunami. Terror
covers the planet like a smoldering blanket. Doubt makes every step on the bridge to a new future a question of uncertainty. Most of us feel our world has lost coherence.
Now we are at the threshold of the Holy Nights, the time of the inner year when our souls feel the greatest awareness and harmony with spiritual realities. Our thoughts find deeper spiritual truths. Our feelings find new heights of
spiritual beauty. Our will engages with a goodness that embraces the world. Love and freedom penetrate our being in new ways. The cares of the world seem to fade and we become more tender like the shepherds and more upright like the kings of the Nativity Story.
We only must pay attention and have a focus. Not ordinary attention or focus. During the Holy Nights our attention becomes more reverent and
our focus more imaginative. (Please spend some time tonight at the threshold of the Holy Nights tuning in to your sense of reverent attention and imaginative focus.)
This year we will give our Holy Nights attention to comfort. Each of the
Twelve Holy Nights we will focus on one form of comfort.
What is the Meaning of Comfort?
Comfort brings to my soul three gifts: consolation, strength and consolidation. It soothes my soul. It strengthens my soul. It unifies my
soul.
The Holy Nights are the most comforting time of the inner year but to find all three forms of comfort we must be active. We cannot expect blessings of comfort to rain down on us.
The Form of the Inner Christmas Messages This
Year
The messages on the Twelve Comforts will focus on predicates, on verbs and their modifiers. The subject will always be “I” referring to your soul/spirit. As we reflect on the threshold of the Holy Nights the comforting message is “I commit my attention to the Holy
Nights.”
I find the most comfort when my soul initiates spirit-filled action. “I am inspired to…!" I experience the inspiring presence of the Divine Beings. My thoughts, feelings and intentions consolidate. My resolve to
fulfill my intention strengthens. My doubts, my troubles, and my resistance are consoled. My comforted soul can engage the future.
Each of the Holy Nights I will write about an action that will comfort your soul. I will make suggestions for contemplation and exploration.
I have always wondered
about the admonition with us since the Greeks: “God helps/strengthens those who help/strengthen themselves!” I would add to that “God consoles those who console others!” and “God is one/consolidates with those who are one/consolidate with themselves, others and the world!”
Between Christmas and Epiphany if we listen we can hear the harmonies of the angels and if we look we can see
the guiding stars, but we must take action. Peace on Earth to souls of good will, good action. We must willfully take up the twelve deeds of comfort in our soul life. We will then know inner peace on Earth in these discomforting times.
Can we contribute to our future if our souls are not full of peace?
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