Good morning. Happy Sunday! Happy Winter Solstice!
The great thing about today is the days will start getting longer, and that is something to celebrate! Not with stuff. Turning this day into a psuedo Christmas excuse to buy and give lots of gifts is a mistake. Instead, celebrate life and Mother Earth and the abundance that comes to us every single day in the way of food, shelter and water. A lot of people don't even have that.
Let's think about what is really important as we leave the dark days behind us. Too bad in reality, the dark days are still to come as far as the collapse of civilization and the coming extinction of thousands more species. Is our stuff that important? Do we need one more gift? What about those holiday cards? Are they necessary? How many trees do we lose to cards and gift wrapping?
And yet we have to find some joy in our lives in spite of the anticipatory grief of the dark days to come. As many people are saying now, live in the present. Enjoy the now. Live with passion. Give up that which does not serve the higher self. Make memories with people you love. Isn't that what life should be about anyway?
When we choose to live in a simpler way, without all of the new gadgets and pretty, shiny stuff, we find ourselves in the company of our soul, and that is an amazing experience. As we meditate on our place in the web of life, we feel the connection to All That Is, and we begin to understand the huge error mankind has made in its need for economic growth. We also begin to realize that none of it matters anyway.
In our life journey, we can choose to open ourselves up to a spiritual path, or not. It is a choice. We can choose to live in love and kindness, not only for other people, but also for ourselves and all of life on Earth, and indeed for the Earth itself.
Our lives our of our own making. Certainly it seems better to choose to do the best one can, to try in every aspect to awaken those around us and live in a sustainable way in reverence of our Mother Earth. But this too is a choice.
Either way, regardless of the endless choices and many paths, we all get there one day. We all die.
So, celebrate today on this Winter Solstice. Spring is coming! It is. Live each day as if it is the last and make someone happy. Share the love.
Let us turn this darkness into light as we open ourselves to new realities. And who knows, if enough people get on the same wavelength, the same frequency, the same energetic vibration--as a Unified Consciousness, we may be able to change the outcome of the sad story of the human race.
Happy Day!
Love to all.
~Rev. Kerry
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