Celebrations are times of massive emotional high’s and lows. Christmas and New Year are two such celebrations for the Western Christian world. Times when the highest rates of suicide and violence take place. It’s a mirror of what causes us to lose focus on what is important to us throughout the rest of the year.
Love comes bundled with many other emotions and these breed expectations. Alcohol and emotion can mix to create disturbances in our mind and heart, we can lose our way and become temporarily overwhelmed. These are the moments when we need to delay our reaction, action and contraction.
Although I recommend to people to spend 10 minutes in nature, in silence each and every day of their lives Christmas and new year are even more important times for such stillness. Being Alone...
Stillness can best be achieved in nature: wanting nothing, needing nothing. Using this perspective we become empty and we return to the state of having everything.
“I want nothing
I need nothing
And therefore
I have everything”
Thanks for the reminder. This time of year can easily draw you away from the truely important things. Parties, hustle and bustle, presents and "good cheer" seem to be satifying the body in the short term, but mean nothing in your soul. I participated in a fuction this morning with my sons hockey team that was truely moving. I watched 15 11-12 year old hockey players prepare brunch, set up tables, serve coffee, clean up spills, wash dishes ect, serving 60-70 homeless and less fortunate people at a local church. They smiled, laughed, sang songs, and did everything that was asked of them without ONE complaint. Most asked if they could go back next week! I was in awe!! How humbling yet inspirational for these kids to partcipate in such a lovely event. I hope that you find a moment in your holidays that touches you like my experience this morning.
Happy Holidays ya bastard!!!!!!!
Posted by: Carol Lethbridge | December 22, 2008 at 11:37 AM