Remember the holidays when you were a kid? How you’d spend all day writing your letter to Santa? Or maybe helping decorate the Christmas tree?
Maybe you and your siblings anticipated the first present of those 8 days of Hanukkah, spinning the dreidel and getting chocolate coins and nuts? Eating grandmama’s potato latkes?
If you were lucky enough, you might sneak some eggnog or get to lick the cookie batter spoon.
Or maybe your family celebrated the holidays by singing Christmas carols?
Perhaps your family celebrated Kwanzaa, (which means “First Fruits,”) and helped your folks decorate your home with fruits and vegetables. Remember the solemn beauty of lighting the kinara, sharing the moment with those you love?
I remember lighting the annual Yule log and helping mum decorate the annual gingerbread house. :)
The stresses and hectic lives we lead as adults can steal the joy of the holidays.
I have a gift for all my readers. I want you to close your eyes and think back to the happiest holiday moment from your childhood. Picture that moment, fix it into your mind. Now, take a deep breath and gather that emotion, send that joy out into the universe and allow it to return and manifest in your life today.
With abundance and joy times three, I send my gift to thee. Be ye of good cheer. I wish for all of you, a healthy and a happy New Year!
Happy Yule!
CC, thank you so much for this! You brought back a memory that I had forgotten and the excitement of that day. Christmas is so hard for me since my father passed on Christmas Eve in 1982. I still cry at 6:46 p.m., but I remembered another Christmas with all the joy that is Christmas.
Cia
I’m glad of it, sugar. That’s the whole point. To remember the joy, bring it to the surface and experience it again and again. Not the sadness or pain. He wouldn’t want that. He loved you so very much and wouldn’t want you to dwell on the bad times–but to recall the good. And I know there are many of those.
Wonderous Magick and Miracles abound. Let them manifest in your life.
Wishing you light, love and laughter,
CC