This is the season of celebrations. Yet, for many of us, finding good cheer to gloat life is difficult. These days, darkness is trying to sneak into our lives as both our daylight and our spirits grow shorter and darker.
In my part of the world, we are unescapable the shortest day of the year (December 21st). The sun sets virtually 4:30 pm, and nightfall covers us like a heavy blanket. And without a year of worry and fear, many of us finger a kind of emotional darkness, too.
Must I really wait for the earth to rotate when virtually toward sun surpassing my spirits lift? I want… no, I NEED all the light I can find right now!
We Like Light; We Need Light
When I enter a room, I turn on the lights. I turn on all the lights. I confess, I plane alimony them on when I leave, so I’m greeted by light when I return. And yes, my eco-friendly husband follows overdue me trying to turn them off. These days I won’t have it. I am keeping them on.
Life gets largest immediately when we bring light into it. It is essential for our well-being in every speciality of our lives:
- People, animals, flowers, and trees seek out light for growth.
- Science confirms that light positively affects our nervous system. It helps to regulate our happiness and sadness.
- Psychology explains that light encourages us and gives us a sense of well-being.
- Spirituality uses “Light” to illustrate hope. God is our “Light” and we are taught to be a light to the world.
We Are Naturally Drawn to Light
Look virtually and you’ll notice our witchery (our addiction) to light! We’ve designed wide unshut spaces with big windows to satisfy our starving for light. We have motion detector lights, solar lights and lights set on timers.
Many use the “clap-on-clap-off” lights. We plane segregate the cities we live in, and vacations we go on, based on the sunshine promised to us.
This year, in particular, I noticed people stringing up their holiday lights older than usual, and not just considering the commercial holiday season demands it. Perhaps this year we need a lot increasingly light and cheering up.
Light Is Knitted Together with Our Celebrations
We gloat life with lights. We have so many special rituals and holidays that we gloat with lights, expressly during the darker months. They hint that something special is happening.
We hang lights on our Christmas tree, light the menorah candles at Chanukah, and wrack-up out tiny candles on our birthday cake. We know how to gloat with twinkling, candle, sun, and star light!
It’s important to CELEBRATE! Celebrations are increasingly than the supplies and fun. They rationalization us to pause, to savor the good stuff. Celebrations buffer out the stressors of life.
It’s a sad day indeed when we stop triumphal the big and small moments in our life. Whether we gloat in rowdy, happy groups (remember, way when when) or quietly in our hearts, we must keep triumphal life and living.
Lights Connect Us to Life
Lights are a vital expression and connection of our celebrations and our everyday life. When we turn on the lights, we create “room” to gloat in our physical space and in our hearts. When we turn on the lights, we unquestionably convert energy to power and heat.
Think well-nigh that: light brings energy and warmth into our life. We warm up and energize our emotions, too. Light sends darkness out. It keeps us from “falling” physically, emotionally, and spiritually.
Does Light Bother You?
Sometimes light surprises us. Then we quickly imbricate our vision or pull the covers over our head. In a way, light can finger a little threatening if it exposes things we don’t want to see. (Who doesn’t’ prefer to be seen in soft candlelight instead of garish fluorescent lighting!)
Shining a light on our worries and fears is intimidating, too. So if you find yourself seeking refuge in cozy visionless places for peace and quiet, you can still find ways to connect light.
A Powerful Glimmer of Hope
Even the smallest glimmer of light keeps the pilot light of HOPE on. What matters is that we gloat with whatever light remains: a candle is a symbol of hope, a single star can show the way, and plane the unvarying glow from your electronics can remind you to gloat our unlimited connection to not only the world wide web, but the whole wide world. Light is a triumph of life.
So now, go out of your way to turn on the lights and celebrate life. Make life largest and brighter. Create a space of positive energy. And be a light in someone’s life, expressly your own.
Let’s Have a Conversation:
Do you enjoy the power of light in your life? How do you gloat the holidays with light? What do you do to make your life brighter in the shorter and darker days of winter? Please share unelevated and let’s have a conversation!
