Thank you for this invitation and reminder! Today is very busy for me but I can pause to breathe in the spaces between chores and activities. And plan (!) for a longer pause tomorrow at the threshold.
I appreciate all of your writing and am deeply grateful for this 12 Days of Christmas retreat. I’ve observed the 12 days in years past; my mother especially encouraged and enjoyed them. She passed onto the other shore on Dec. 10 with her beloved Christmas music playing in the background; she took her last breaths here as “Silent Night” began playing. So this retreat this Season, this year, is especially meaningful to me. It’s been a beautiful Season, and I do not feel ready quite yet to jump into Jan 7 reality, so this Pause with this community is generating deep Comfort, Joy, and Peace. Thank you for being you and Blessings all around as you continue sharing your Gifts with others in these ways. With great gratitude and prayer with and for your family.
Thank you so much, Carol. I am so glad you are with us in your time of loss. Thank you for your beautiful words and blessings to your grieving heart. A & C & H
I'd like to share some experiences with you of my last days in our Christmas rhythm and with the notes and images of Almut and Chuck (and the little one).
Since we do not travel this year after the services we had, our time with the candles and Christmas incense is often and expanded and helped me to deepen my experience. We have free time organization, which is a gift in these days. We spent good time with our elder son, our younger could not come, because of corona, even so my sister and her husband. This made me sad at first.
I started in these days with the Idea of finding ground in the earth and found several ways to do so. Then I noticed, that the time of "digesting" pausing, pondering, looking-at is very precious and healing for me. And yes, the rubble came in, overwhelming and powerful and I am so touched, that I have words for it now. So I can take the rubble down to the ground and "digest" it. In German we say "verdauen" which is very close to "vertrauen", which means to trust, to believe.
Its now clearer to me, that the beginning of the year is in the dark season, after the new light is to see.
We already have the chance for a new or renewed Perspective, when we walk the line to the New Year. I like to walk with you these days and send my blessings to you all!
Thank you for this invitation and reminder! Today is very busy for me but I can pause to breathe in the spaces between chores and activities. And plan (!) for a longer pause tomorrow at the threshold.
wonderful. That sounds like a good retreat plan :-)
I appreciate all of your writing and am deeply grateful for this 12 Days of Christmas retreat. I’ve observed the 12 days in years past; my mother especially encouraged and enjoyed them. She passed onto the other shore on Dec. 10 with her beloved Christmas music playing in the background; she took her last breaths here as “Silent Night” began playing. So this retreat this Season, this year, is especially meaningful to me. It’s been a beautiful Season, and I do not feel ready quite yet to jump into Jan 7 reality, so this Pause with this community is generating deep Comfort, Joy, and Peace. Thank you for being you and Blessings all around as you continue sharing your Gifts with others in these ways. With great gratitude and prayer with and for your family.
Thank you so much, Carol. I am so glad you are with us in your time of loss. Thank you for your beautiful words and blessings to your grieving heart. A & C & H
Dear fellow travelers,
I'd like to share some experiences with you of my last days in our Christmas rhythm and with the notes and images of Almut and Chuck (and the little one).
Since we do not travel this year after the services we had, our time with the candles and Christmas incense is often and expanded and helped me to deepen my experience. We have free time organization, which is a gift in these days. We spent good time with our elder son, our younger could not come, because of corona, even so my sister and her husband. This made me sad at first.
I started in these days with the Idea of finding ground in the earth and found several ways to do so. Then I noticed, that the time of "digesting" pausing, pondering, looking-at is very precious and healing for me. And yes, the rubble came in, overwhelming and powerful and I am so touched, that I have words for it now. So I can take the rubble down to the ground and "digest" it. In German we say "verdauen" which is very close to "vertrauen", which means to trust, to believe.
Its now clearer to me, that the beginning of the year is in the dark season, after the new light is to see.
We already have the chance for a new or renewed Perspective, when we walk the line to the New Year. I like to walk with you these days and send my blessings to you all!
Ingeborg
So beautiful, vielen Dank. I am glad you have found pause to digest the past and to trust into the future :-)
Thank you for the invitation/reminder to pause.