just a little light...

Earlier this evening I attended a solstice celebration.  I had never been to this place before and had not been to a celebration of this type before so I did not know what to expect.  I found my way along a path outlined with luminarias and at specific places along this path were bonfires.   People at the bonfires were reading poetry.   As I entered the building a choir sat at one end and I heard the most heavenly music I have ever heard.   I couldn't tell if it was a recording or was being sung by the choir and so I took a seat fairly close to the choir to see if they were singing.  As far as I could tell they were not.   The celebration was simple:  music, some spoken words, a ceremony where a woman and a child lighted a communal fire in the center of the group of people.  At the end of the ceremony if we wanted to participate we lit our own candle from the communal fire and take it with us as we left.  This was a wonderful metaphor for taking our light out into the world.   It reminded me how in the darkness all we need to do is light a match, flick a switch, or a modern take on turning on the light... simply open or turn on our cell phone.  Interesting isn't it... using our communication device to light our way.  I certainly have at times.   In the darkness all it takes is turning on a light, however that is done and the darkness goes away.   That is how easy it is to make the darkness go away.  Darkness on its own has no power.  Darkness cannot come into a lighted room and chase away the light.  But any little light, a match, a candle, even a cell phone, chases the darkness away.   Allow your light... the beautiful light that is in you, all of you, to chase away the darkness.  You can't imagine how much light that puts into the world, each of us... just a little light...

Fly free and happy...

“You have no birthday because you have always lived; you were never born, and never will die. You are not the child of the people you call mother and father, but their fellow-adventurer on a bright journey to understand the things that are...
Fly free and happy beyond birthdays and across forever, and we'll meet now and then when we wish, in the midst of the one celebration that never can end.”
    There's No Such Place As Far Away (1978) by Richard Bach 
Do you remember Richard Bach?  JONATHAN LIVINGSTON SEAGULL,  ILLUSIONS, more. 
A man before his time.  I like to think it is easier now to believe that quote above.  Most of us can’t feel the presence of those we lose.  Most of us can hardly even believe that this is an adventure let alone that we are in the midst of a celebration that can never end.