I love it when it is Christmastime...
I love the spectacle I saw last Friday of a man in a full business suit completely letting go of his inhibitions and dancing to the folk music of a homeless guy who spends his days playing guitar by my office building. The homeless guy had a smile that was so big, it just broke my heart.
I love seeing the little kids looking at all the dowtown store windows, bundled up in their snowsuits and mittens, with wonder in their eyes.
I love being in a house full of my family, cooking and talking (very loudly, no less) and dancing to music and rejoicing in our time together.
I love that my grandfather, since his death at Imbolc this year in 2007, has continually somehow caused it to snow whenever my eldest aunt wishes to feel his presence in that way, no matter the location or the unlikelihood of its doing so. At Christmas Eve candlelight service, we sung his favorite hymn, Silent Night, and we stood round our candle and cried and was glad he was free from pain. And the full moon stood overhead in a sky studded with stars... But the next morning, it snowed... much to our delight. Thanks, grandpa. I have no idea how he is now connected to the weather, but rainbows and snow have been really prevalent since his passing... beginning with the double rainbow when we scattered his ashes at Crazy Horse.
There are so many I miss this Christmas... my grandfathers, my childhood pets (I lost my last two in October), InLove...
And yet there is something beautiful as I reflect on their transformation...
I love it when I know those in pain have finally broken free from all limitation, and are truly one with the Divine.