When my daughter Lillian was little, we would celebrate the Winter Solstice in a magical way. The Solstice fairy would leave magical presents at the doorstep. We would read solstice stories while eating cookies, and then we would light candles in all the windows and go for a walk in the dark. We’d talk about what we wanted to bring to light in the new year and what we wanted to let go of that had been hard. Then we would round the corner to our house and see the light waiting to bring us home.

You could, on this longest night of the year, gather candles and turn off all the lights.  Sit in the darkness. Feel it around you. Perhaps, if it feels okay, imagine the aspects of the darkness that you are ready to shine light into–the fears you are ready to see for what they are, the patterns, the stresses, the old thoughts–gently and with love, of course!

Then light your candles and as you do, imagine healing sparkling love streaming through you, underneath you, around you, holding you, supporting you to liberate even more of your light into the world.  To see how stunning you truly are.

Today’s Intention: To remember the light always returns.

With gratitude for your light,

Jen

P.S. A Story For You:
Creating the Comfort Queen’s 2009 Virtual Retreat has meant I had to learn from my fear and not let it rule me. When I first started working on the idea in early November, I was in thrall to fear and one story fear likes to tell me is my ideas are stupid. So when I invited the guest experts that I didn’t know, like Barbara Sher or Steve Chandler, and they didn’t get right back to me, I was sure they didn’t like my idea.

Then I decided I needed more time to do this retreat right, so I postponed it until January 16th-19th. I continued doing lots of the inner and outer work to ease and learn from my fear and when I reinvited people, I noticed a huge difference in how I waited for their replies. There was this wide strong feeling of “This retreat will be what it needs to be to serve the people it needs to serve. I don’t have to make this happen. I get to stay awake and steer.”

It’s this kind of shift, this learning that you have different options of being with fear, anxiety, self-judgement, and the unknown, that I’m so eager to share. I am experiencing it!

I want you to have this experience as well.  Get on the preferred customer discount list and bop me on the head if I’ve already reminded you too many times!

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