Today, Christmas and Channukah overlap. I love these images:
1.
May the candles brighten our hearts and souls and remind us of
all the GOOD in our world.
2.
May they give us COURAGE to be ourselves and resist the latest trends around us.
3. May the Shamos -
the helper candle -remind us that we can HELP spread light in our darkened world, we must help others.
4. May we TRUST that there will be
enough. That what we have is enough. That what we are is enough. For that cruse
of oil that shouldn't have
sufficed, sufficed.
5. May the give us HOPE - All too often we are told,
there is no more oil left to burn when there is - “The proper response that
Chanukah teaches is not to curse the darkness, but to light a candle.”
6. May we have FAITH - as we light these
candles. Remember we light the candles when it is darkest.
7.
May we SHARE our light with others. We are taught that we should place
our menorah on our windowsills, so that the light invades the darkened streets
and alleys.
8. May we remember that
our future has not been written yet. If our observance of this holiday
strengthened our bonds to our past and to those around us, if we can focus on
the light over the dark, if we can share the light with others and brighten our
world, and if we can REDEDICATE ourselves to that which is holy, then our observance of
Chanukah was meaningful and worthy.
I hope that whichever holiday you celebrate, you have warmth and peace and light.
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