Christmas

Now deep within my being speaks
With urge to revelation
In mystery
The cosmic Word:
Fulfill the goals of your life's work
With My Spirit light
To offer up yourself
Through me.

(from the Calendar of the soul by Rudolf Steiner)

Christmas Eve

Amongst those living on the earth
Were hardly any
Who found Him,
Beheld
And worshiped Him.

His Dwelling place was
Crowded by living beings
From other worlds.

Those who seek knowingly
Will find Him
Where the way has been shown before
To the unknowing.

author unknown

ADVENT

Rich and soft descends the snow
Blinding the earth;
Under the heavenly load of white
Forgetfulness
Hastes forth her life;
Death becomes light!

Still,the eyes gaze
At midnight, when the crowded
Firmament
Shoots countless spirit arrows.
Stars come together
Anew to an infinite
Power web.

Humbly the earth rotates in their midst.
That dull, chosen star
In a shy glow of tender rays.
Earth, small cradle,
Once again the Creator lays himself down,
The child in you
Stands over the holiest of planets.

Karl Thylman
(translated from Dutch)

Fall

Thou leaves, rest in peace
And not one shall be lost
Not even one go to waste
Forever: reborn that are now dead,
Shall each of you that fell,
The summer wake again,
Shall with your green cloak
The green trees cover
At summer time.

(author unknown)

something to think about....

From the inaugural speech Nelson Mandella, 1994

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our Light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?
Actually, who are we not to be?
You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.
We were born to make manifest the Glory of God that is within us.
It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone.
And as we let our Light shine,
We unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear,
Our presence automatically liberates others.

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The Foundation for Arts & Healing has created a great video that fits in perfectly with the Art Therapy site. It's called Can Art Be Medicine?
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for the dark days in November

I feel my own force bearing fruit
And gaining strength to give me to the world.
My inmost being I feel charged with power
To turn with clearer insight
Toward the weaving of life's destiny.

a verse by Rudolf Steiner