Winter Solstice - Part 2

We gather together in homes and churches and synagogues, celebrating the light that will return to us. This is the time of year for sharing with the community the hope and faith that the light always returns.

Take a few moments and think about your life at this time.
Where is the darkness? Have you embraced it?
Where does this darkness need to be transformed?
Where do you need to see the light at the end of the tunnel, the rebirth of the sun/son?
What needs to be reborn in you, in your life?
What hope and promise of enlightenment do you crave?

As you are ready, light a candle to represent what you wish to give birth to during this season. If you wish, you can speak your wish out loud; giving voice to our wishes puts our intention out to the universe. You may do this for as many wishes as you would like.

This is the time of the Solstice, the longest night of the year. Now darkness triumphs, and yet gives way and changes into light. The breath of nature is suspended: all waits for the return of the sun/son. We watch for the coming of dawn, the return of hope and the promise of summer. This is the stillness behind motion, when time itself stops; the center which is also the circumference of all. Knowing that without darkness, there is no light, we breathe in the stillness, the great knowledge that all things are possible.