Welcome the Great Light

Welcome the Great Light    12.24.19
 
Winter Solstice celebrates the growing return of the light.  As the earth spins on her axis, she tilts and the light always present begins to show itself more and more each day.  We welcome this yearly ritual and, in its honoring, we symbolically welcome the light that is always present in each heart to blossom more fully.
 
I understand it is the darkness that lends the light a stage upon which to present her glory.  It is the dark that brings rest and a sweet sort of silence that the sound of light may trumpet her arrival. 
 
Of course, I don’t always remember or embrace this when darkness seems unending and often cruel.  Still, they are partners darkness and light.  They pulse and dance in unison, in an embrace so close it is often hard to tell which is leading.    
 
So, I close my eyes each day and rest in the darkness, in the sweet silence of source that I may hear her secrets; know her truth, find steadiness and love in the core of my being, the core of each being.  The darkness in a way births the light, and the light rests in darkness. 
 
No matter where our physical body stands, always we meet in the great heart.  Upon opening my eyes then, once more the world looks new as the light of my individual awareness illuminates the objects of the world and I astonishingly see, hear, smell, touch and taste the light as though it were for the first time. 
 
This is the gift of contrast.  The experience in which one, permits the other a moment of glory, be it sound or silence, darkness or light.  The gift of meditation is one that keeps this experience alive.  And it is more than fleeting experience, it is the gift of knowledge that permits one to embrace both dark and light in each life and in doing so, move closer to the living experience of light as source, anchor and home.
 
In this blessed season as many celebrate the return of light in the physical world and in the heart of humans as represented by the loving words holy beings shouted from the hillsides and temples, churches and ashrams, mosques and basement rooms, I wish you peace.   
 
May you know the light of your own sweet heart.  May it swell and spill out into the world in all you do, big and small, each day, in potent forms of love.
Sva Mahāprakāśa!  Welcome the Great Light.