I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.
~ Charles Dickens
I am deeply grateful for America’s cultural honoring and celebration of Christmas, that we have collectively deemed this holiday worthy to interrupt work schedules and the normal routines of our lives. Granted, there is the gift giving and consumerism and parties, but Christmas-time holds the space for so many more rich opportunities...to gather at “home,” connecting and communing with family and friends, to honor the birth of Christ and the gifts of his brief life on this planet that have persevered through so many years and generations, and to reflect upon the innumerable blessings in our lives.
My love for Christ is overwhelming, and yet, even at Christmas, I observe my own resistance to sharing our heart-felt love and connection. I struggle to contain a love that feels uncontainable, because I do not want to risk aligning with Christianity’s teachings that Jesus is the ONLY way and truth and answer...and that any other way is wrong.
My love for Christ Consciousness is the same as:
Deva Premal’s love for Osho
Ram Dass’ love for his guru Maharaj ji
the Dalai Lama’s love for Buddha
...you get the idea
Many teachers, masters, prophets, persons have lived on Earth and manifested pure, divine love expressing...the essence of each of us.
I love Jesus, and through our connection I have found my true self. Through Jesus I have tapped into divine love, the love that is our essence and source. Through whom have you found your true self? Who fills your entire being with love, knowing, bliss, truth, peace...? Who past or present, in this world or on the other side of the veil, has opened your heart allowing you to be truly present in this world, with profound divine love overflowing, with connection to all?
In my love and celebration of Jesus at Christmas (and every day), I am also celebrating and honoring all of the teachers and masters and love energies who have loved us into love. I am grateful.
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