“A seed will need the darkness to change into new life ….”  Rickie Byars Beckwith  

A season of darkness proceeds the season of light.  It is said that it is darkest just before the dawn.  With all the focus upon the light, one can overlook the gifts that can only be found in the seasons that seem so dark.  It is in these seasons that we are invited to turn within to the depth of our soul, to a stillness, a sweet silence, a perfect peace.  It is in the woods of winter, stark and bare, that one can see farther, more clearly and beyond distractions of the world. 

I invite you to embrace this time before the dawning of a new light of a new season to find the light within you.  Set time aside each day, turning away from the busyness of the Holiday Season, to let the darkened skies call you home to the stillness within.  Herein lies the seed that needs this time, needs the stillness and the silence, before it can bring new life. 

You are a Divine Idea in the Mind of God.  The Descent of Spirit into form is the Christ Consciousness, that seed within you that lies dormant in the darkness.  I invite you to turn within and into the light that you are.  Let us realize the gifts of light that we are as faith, as peace, as love, and as joy.  It is said that this Christ in you is your hope of glory.  The time of looking to a light that is outside of you is over.  

You are the light of the world.  Turn within this season … into the light and be the light in a world made new.