Dearest Friends,

The Holy Nights of the Year will soon lift the veils between our souls and the spiritual realm.

Below I share the theme for this year's Inner Christmas Messages. The 16th year! I can hardly believe it. Sixteen years of Christmas being more meaningful than I had ever imagined. 

This is my first Christmas at 102B Meadowbrook Drive. One of my favorite aspects of my new home (been here 9 months now!) is the light. My bedroom has an east facing window so my mornings are glorious! In my old home I could not see the rising sun (or moon), so I really celebrate this daily experience. How does sunlight live in your home?

This first Christmas in my new home brings a new sensory delight in how I decorate for the holiday. This will be my 73rd Christmas! Only two Christmases had no personal decorating because I was traveling. I've had Christmas in over 20 homes. Crazy!

I've known about the Holy Nights for 33 years, but only truly celebrated them since I started sending the Inner Christmas Messages. And the joy of sharing these Holy Nights with so many souls around the world is the greatest of all the Christmas gifts I have ever received. 

I hope you will join me in celebrating an Inner Christmas this year.

With loving warmth,

Lynn

Each year I choose a theme, rather a theme chooses me, to explore from twelve gestures or perspectives. Four years ago the theme was 12 Kindnesses and one of the messages was on the kindness of promising. I’ve copied the message below.

This year we will see 12 different promises, 12 ways we make our lifetimes meaningful. 

(If you have never subscribed to the Inner Christmas Messages, this is an example. The messages are gifts of inspiration offering your soul nourishment for your inner year.)

first published January 1, 2016

Your Soul’s Eighth Act of Kindness

Promising

Every day is a new beginning. Something is dawning. What is it promising?

Everything and nothing. Wrap yourself in the kindness of the promising of everything and nothing. Charge into the new day!

If the new day were to promise something specific, too much can get in the way.  We promise something will happen, but so much else will also happen and in many cases the promise will be crowded out of the happening.  But the promising…there is the kindness.

The Latin root of the verb to promise is to send forth. Promising takes the kindness the present holds and offers it to the future. Whether it appears in the future or not is not about the kindness in the promising, it is about the circumstances in the future.

This kindness of promising is not about the promise to do the dishes. In that case, the kindness is in doing the dishes, the fulfillment of a promise.

When someone assures me that I can count on them for the presence of the truth, beauty and goodness only they can offer, so that I might flourish, my future feels secure, trustworrthy, harmonious, vibrant and empowered. They have promised. I wrap the kindness of their promising around me as I take my next breath. 

But if I cling to a future event as proof of the kindness, I am languishing until the promise manifests and it may never manifest.

Promising gives an image or dream of a kind future to the recipient.

If we only validate the simple kindness of a promising by its fulfillment in a wildly complex future, we are foolish.  Promising is a desire to send the importance of everything and nothing into the future. Nothing is freedom. Everything is love.

So much can get in the way to thwart the intention to live in the promise.  But we cannot let this harsh reality negate the kindness in the promising.

I want to always be grateful for the kindness living in the promising, to see every promising as full of kindness.  Then I don’t need to wait to see if the promise appears as a reality in the future before I feel its kindness.   

In the beginning was the Word…the promising of everything and nothing…the Cosmic Kindness.

Every newborn is the promising of everything and nothing…a cosmic kindness.