LET THERE BE…..LIGHT!!!
Tis the season for…..LIGHT! It has always been amazing to me that in the darkest time of the year, there are celebrations of LIGHT all over the world! Perhaps these celebrations of LIGHT remind us that the darkness must always yield to the light. It is the promise that the sun comes back, bringing longer days and that Spring follows winter!
Festivals of Light permeate the month of December through many spiritual traditions, the Winter Solstice, and Kwanzaa.
*In Christianity, the start of the Advent season starts today with Advent, the preparation and anticipation of the birth of Jesus on December 25.
*In Buddhism, December 8th is the celebration of the Buddha’s Enlightenment.
*In Judaism, Hanukkah is an eight-day celebration of light representing knowledge and wisdom, and so much more, beginning on December 12.
*Winter Solstice has been celebrated for thousands of years in honor of the return of the sun, the celebration of light, and the symbolic meaning of light and wisdom.
*The holiday of Kwanzaa is a one week ethnic celebration of light starting on December 26.
So, in the month of December, I invite you to participate with me in exploring the meaning, traditions, and ways of celebrating the Festivals of Light. This can be a new way of bringing us closer together in the time of the global darkness of Covid.
Blessings as we start the month of December in celebration of LIGHT!
Carolyn
