It's Christmas tomorrow and I'm so looking forward to celebrating with my friends and family but also planning to take some time out during the day to reconnect with God. It's so easy for me to take my spirituality for granted. Time to do some remembering.

Ever since MO quoted it to me in another thread, John 1:1-5 has been on my mind:

John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.2 He was with God in the beginning.3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.4 In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind.5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

This Christmas I'll be remembering that the spark of the divine is in all things, through all things, in everyone and everything I can observe with my five senses. The Christ Child is what happens when the mundane melds completely with the divine. It is the fruit of the divine masculine potential and the divine femine birthing. Christ sets the example of servanthood, love, equality, piety. It's this example that leads into light and life - living the best life possible no matter the cirumstance. When I follow this example and allow the divine to flow freely through me, I cannot fold. Assurance follows me wherever I go and whatever I do. Even in the harshest of circumstance, such as in the dead of Winter, there is the promise of the closeness of the divine and hope for a blessed existence.

Tomorrow, I'll be spending time with my little family and then the big family. I'm so much looking forward to being with them altogether. It's the place of belonging I've looked for all my life. Of course it's Summer in my part of the world and we'll be celebrating with cool drinks, backyard cricket and water play for kids of all ages. It's my intention on this day to embody the qualities of Christ and see the divine all around me, within me, and working through me.

Merry Christmas!