I heard many beautiful messages at church this weekend. Just as Mary nurtured the newborn infant Jesus, we are to nurture the light of Christ that was born in us this Christmas. As we do it will grow, just as a baby grows as it is nurtured by his/her mother.
We nurture this light with our intentions, our awareness as the Observer, and by letting go of the ego which blocks the light. We nurture this light by accepting what is showing up in each moment and relaxing, allowing ourselves to be present with what is. As we stop the analyzing and the controlling we make room for God's grace.
Adyashanti says it like this:
"By relinquishing our need and desire to control, explain, and believe the way that our minds talk to us about what was and what is, we find a capacity to open to a new state of consciousness...At first it's just experienced as a state of stillness, the foretaste of awakened consciousness, where a presence begins to reveal itself. If you allow yourself to relax into this stillness, this silence, you start to witness this presence arise...By giving your attention to it, by becoming aware of this inner presence and stillness, even in the midst of activity (i.e., by being the Observer and letting go) you make yourself more and more available to the dawning of this vast expanse where you can awaken out of the belief and experience of separation. You realize yourself to be a deep well of awareness." (Falling into Grace, p. 119).
Christmas may be over but it is really just a beginning. It is the beginning of an opportunity to grow the awareness that was born in each of us this holiday - the awareness of the light within.
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