‘Light and Darkness.’ “I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.” –Og Mandino.

On December 22nd, we will experience winter solstice, the shortest period of daylight of the year in the Northern Hemisphere.  Light and darkness—we don’t have to set these opposites against each other. We can let the darkness reveal things, insights from our dreams: In Prayer’s quiet (when we shut the door of the outer world) for a time set apart and receptive, open to the light of Spirit.

Appreciating the literal darkness, longer evenings of the day and what peace and rest it may bring. Ideas and images percolate in the solitude of the womb of our hearts and minds and yield prosperity and new opportunities and creations. Too, our visions come to our aid in periods of gloom, deep inner searching and dark periods of our lives. Revelations are fostered in our low energy and more depressed moments of our lives, bringing new vitality and light into our soul and life journey. The darkness in us can stimulate our search for the light of Truth. We gain great power in our wilderness experiences of temptations, falsity, and brighter choices. 

In Affirmative Thought—I give thanks for the dark and the light of my being. Darkness can reveal a deep feeling needing to be faced, felt inside, and released. Furthermore, embracing any shadow energy in the light of understanding, awakens my whole being; and I shine more fully because of the clarity. I am comfortable with my whole self–darkness and light, sadness and joy, creativity and times of rest, the opportunity of shorter winter days and longer nights, and cooperating with what needs to be healed and also what deserves to be celebrated in me and in my life.