A Time for Reflection
Welcome once again to this message. We recognize that for many of you this is a very busy time. One where you are planning a dinner, a celebration, honoring people. But it is also the time of the solstice, the time of long nights and short days. You are moving into winter, a time to reflect, a time to look forward after you have looked at the past year. By looking back over the past year, you can see where you have grown, where you have changed, and what still needs work. There are always things you can do to bring change into your life, but it is entirely up to you. If there's an area of your life that you are fully happy with, even if others would disagree, you are not required to change. Just be sure that you are looking through the things in your life with as much clarity and love as possible. Both of those change how you look at everything. If you do not have clarity, it is like looking at the world through fog. If you do not have love then it is if you are looking at the world as though you were not connected to anything else.
The solstice is a good time for reflection, winter is setting in at least for those in the northern hemisphere. Your society has built this as a time to rush around to do the celebrations, separating yourself in most cases from nature, separating yourself from the change of season, separating yourself from paying attention to your body. Is your body requiring more rest? Are you needing more quiet time, maybe time alone? Are you finding that you would love to be able to sit somewhere with a book and a warm drink, stepping away from the craziness of the holidays and the turmoil in your world?
We do realize that for most of you the way your life is situated, you can't just step away for a few days without a lot of planning and forethought. But you can take small periods of time where you just enter into quiet, you let go of all those lists of things you need to get done, and you just be yourself even if it's only 15 minutes. 15 minutes of quietness where you are purposely not stressing, not thinking about what you need to do next, but you're taking the time to just be, it can make such a difference. We hope that you will try to spend some time in nature honoring the change of season, honoring yourself, honoring of the spiritual beings that are with you. Loving yourself through stressful times means you get to love others with a little more ease than you might normally have.