The Twelve Days Of Christmas Begin On Christmas Day…

25 Dec 2021 Leave a comment

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Merry Christmas!!! While today is December 25th and Christmas Day…Did you know that the Twelve Days of Christmas also begin today? It is the belief that the 12 days of Christmas were the amount of time it took the Three Wise Men, or Three Kings to travel to Bethlehem for the Epiphany after Jesus was born. Accordingly, the Epiphany was the “revelation” that Jesus was revealed to be the “Savior” of Mankind as promised by the Divine through Prophecy…

The First Day of Christmas, which is Christmas Day, Celebrates the birth of Jesus…The Christ.

The Second Day of Christmas, Boxing Day or Saint Stephen’s Day, remembers the first martyr of Christianity, which was St. Stephen.

The Third Day of Christmas Celebrates Saint John, the Apostle, or Saint John the Beloved. He is the patron saint of love, loyalty, friendships, authors, booksellers, burn victims, poison victims, art-dealers, editors, publishers, scribes, examinations, scholars and theologians…Saint John wrote the Book of Revelation.

The Fourth Day of Christmas is the Feast of the Holy Innocents…this day remembers all of the babies murdered by King Herod in his search to find and kill baby Jesus.

The Fifth Day of Christmas remembers the Archbishop of Canterbury, Saint Thomas Becket, who was killed because he challenged the king’s authority of the church.

The Sixth Day of Christmas Celebrates Saint Egwin of Worcester who is known as the protector of orphans and the widowed…he died in 717.

The Seventh Day of Christmas, which is New Year’s Eve, celebrates Pope Sylvester I, who filled the see of Rome at an important era of the Christian Roman Empire, or the Western Church…He died in Rome, Italy on December 31, 335 AD.

The Eight Day of Christmas on New Year’s Day, Celebrates Mary, the mother of Jesus.

The Ninth Day of Christmas honors two important Christians, Saint Basil the Great and Saint Gregory Nazianzen, from the 4th century. Saint Basil the Great was a Byzantine bishop and influential theologian who supported the Nicene Creed and opposed the heresies of the early Christian church. He was born in Kayseri, Turkey in 330 AD and died January 1, 379 AD. Saint Gregory was born in Arianzum, (known as Nazianzus) Cappadocia in 329 AD and was the Archbishop of Constantinople and a theologian, considered the most accomplished rhetorical stylist of the Patristic Era, or early Christian writers who were designated Church Fathers. He died January 25, 390 AD.

The Tenth Day of Christmas Celebrates the Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus…when Jesus was named in the Jewish Temple.

The Eleventh Day of Christmas Celebrates Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton, the first American saint. She was born on August 28, 1774, In New York, NY, and died January 4, 1821, in Emmitsburg, MD. She was a Catholic religious sister and an educator, and the founder of the country’s parochial school system.

The Twelfth Day of Christmas is Epiphany Eve, known as that because it is January 5, the day before Epiphany, the Three Kings’ Day, a Christian Festival, which begins on January 6, celebrating how a star led the Magi to the baby Jesus….

The Twelve Days of Christmas isn’t just a Christmas song…it is also known as Twelvetide, a Christian religious celebration centered around the Nativity.

It is believed also that the Twelve Days of Christmas symbolize a different aspect of the Christian religion…

A partridge in a pear tree represents Jesus…

Two turtle doves…the Old and New Testaments…

Three French hens…Faith…Hope and Charity…

Four calling birds….the four gospels…

Five golden rings…the first five books of the Old Testament…

Six geese…the six days of creation….

Seven swans…the gifts of the Holy Spirit…

Eight maids…the eight blessings given by Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount, in the Gospel of Matthew…

Nine ladies dancing…the nine different fruits of the Holy Spirit…

Ten lords….the Ten Commandments…

Eleven pipers…the eleven faithful Apostles…

Twelve drummers…the twelve points of the doctrine in the Apostle’s Creed…

Take these twelve days of Christmas and create at least twelve days more to carry out the Spirit of Christmas…

Continue with Faith…Hope…and Charity. Begin your own new tradition….We have been through a two-year period of thoughtful isolation…time alone that has allowed us to reflect…and given us moments through this travail…to touch the face of God…

Let us change in the twinkling of an eye…let us reach out…let us give our hearts in the spirit of what was given to all of us with the birth of Christ…Let us remember that we are all blessed….that we are all saviors…and shepherds…Messengers…and Deliverers…remember that life is not an everyday promise…but a gift…

As you continue to ponder your thoughts and reflect on the events of your Christmas Day…be good…be kind…be forgiving…be thankful…to yourself…and to others…

Renew…with your twelve days of Christmas…

Give and receive the love….

Your twelve days of Christmas awaits…

Make someone smile…and feed your soul…..

Merry Christmas to all…and to all…

Feel the Love…because you are….

Christmas Eve 2021…

24 Dec 2021 Leave a comment

by alphaenlight in Daily, Food For Thought, Uncategorized Tags: , , , ,

On the Eve of Christmas 2020, we looked forward to Christmas Eve 2021…Here we are…still following us is the ever mutating coronavirus…repeating its presence with isolation…climbing infection counts…travel cancellations…and disappointment…causing defiance of protocols and small gatherings…

To beat this virus we must appeal to our humility…and think of the bigger picture…next Christmas Eve…2022.

If we would just think of what we could have…instead of what we don’t have…we can beat this virus and be together again…and have the freedom without the consequence of infection…and possibly death, by following protocols and protecting our families, friends and neighbors…and those we come into daily contact with, by doing what we know is necessary to bring this virus under control.

No one is giving up their rights as they believe…If we cannot control ourselves to do what is necessary to control COVID, everyone needs to start getting use to the idea that the ability to be with those we love will never come without consequences…and the lack of consideration will also touch and take the lives of those that may be…and have been condemned by those shouting the loudest about their rights being taken away while demonstrating disregard and defiance of protocols…that if practiced, would save thousands and thousands of lives.

I remember when vaccination verification such as smallpox, had to be shown before children could start school…I don’t remember many people objecting then…It assured the safety of children everywhere, attending public and private schools….

Ironically, although smallpox was eliminated in North America in 1952, and Europe in 1953, the World Health Organization began a plan in 1959 to eradicate smallpox from the world, and met with the same challenges then with lack of funds, personnel and commitment from countries, and shortages of vaccine donations… This is not the type of consistency which should be practiced in humankind moving forward…

We must step out of the confines of the Past…and move with expediency into the progress of Today…

If Christ chose to be defiant…shout about his rights or practiced being self-absorbed and thinking only of himself…would we be observing Christmas? Or any other holidays associated with the life and death of Christ? He sacrificed his life for humankind….Humans can’t even sacrifice wearing a mask…to save the life of another…let alone, themselves….

How important is life really…to humankind??? If we were to measure that question by behavior and what we have witnessed, and continue to witness surrounding COVID and protocols…our answer is already reflected in the number of lives lost to this continuing pandemic. Whose rights have really been taken away and lost?

What is being lost now is time…time which cannot be replaced…Time which will never come again. Time which could and would have been used with family and friends…if protocols were practiced by everyone…it could have been here and now…in 2021.

It is we…right here…right now…who hold lives in the palm of our hands…it is our choices which define us and define the fate of those we love and those we have yet to know…We can be foolish with our fates…and if we don’t care about our fates…

We commit even higher travesties and sinfulness by blatantly condemning others to our foolishness…and their rights to life.

The difference is ours to make…

Will Christmas Eve 2021 give rise to Christmas Eve 2022…which began with Christmas Eve 2020?

As we have witnessed…free-will is a double-edged sword…Selfless…or Selfish….

Christmas Eve…2021…

Remember it…if you are satisfied…keep it going…if freedom is what you seek for Christmas Eve 2022…make it happen now…know what must be done…and do it with heart and soul.

We make the choices…and our choices define us and the moment.

May your hearts be light…

With the coronavirus soon…to be out of sight.

Christmas Eve Blessings to all….

Joe Biden…Pick Up Your Pen and Perform A Christmas Miracle…

22 Dec 2021 Leave a comment

by alphaenlight in Daily, Food For Thought, Uncategorized Tags: , , , , , , , , ,

It would be a miracle if the American people can actually believe in anyone who promises to make life livable…if we would elect them President of the United States…

We have been electing politicians who have been recycling promises and re-gifting the proverbial “fruitcake” for so long…that we’ve grown to accept the repetitive song and dance…

Joe Biden is no different…He is after all a “career” politician. It was everyone’s wish that he would be different…different in the way that he would really be for the people and truly fight for the things that would give every American a hand up receiving a genuine opportunity at having and achieving a life of quality in a country that so proudly boasts about being the best in the world….

Strength is not measured in words…but in actions.

There is one thing that can be done which will give millions of Americans a hand up and boost our economy at the same time…Homes can be purchased…savings can be had…futures can be certain… If only the President had the courage and the foresight to do the right thing….and deliver a deed which will set him apart from the redundant crowd he clings so loyally to…

We gave Joe Biden his dream…

It’s time he stepped up to the plate and start demonstrating to the American people that he can move mountains…

Joe Biden…Pick Up Your Pen and Perform a Christmas Miracle…

Your first Christmas Miracle…

Wipe OUT Student Loan Debt.

Mr. President…

It is solely within your power to do so….Yours and yours alone. You don’t need the House or the Senate…just pick up your pen and make it happen. You know you can…You can legally cancel as much as $50,000 in federal student loans…You don’t need your your education secretary to prep a memo…that’s just a formality…You already know that you can…but you won’t…because you’re a career politician…and politics come before people…isn’t that right?

Pass the fruitcake….

Merry Christmas, America.

What Do You Want For Christmas?

20 Dec 2021 Leave a comment

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In five days, Christmas will be here…What do you want for Christmas?

Laptops…iPhones…iPads…Cars…Oculus Quest 2…Gigantic Screen TV…Diamonds…Gold…Clothes…Vacations…Shoes….?

What about that screen door or other things around the house that was promised to be repaired or replaced by your spouse? What about promises made to character build and be that better person…made by yourself…and those family members and friends? Children cleaning their rooms without being told…that is a great thing to want for Christmas!!! Giving to those who don’t have…whenever we can…not just for Christmas.

Material things don’t endure…Material things cannot accompany us to the great beyond…

Peace…Goodwill…Love…Giving…

These are lasting…these are the building blocks of a better world…For a better Humanity…

The Magic of Christmas is you…

Miracles start and begin with you…

It will never be found in giving or receiving anything material…

Your thoughts toward others…your words toward others…your deeds toward others…given unconditionally, with love…sincerity…and service…with the intent to uplift and lead to the betterment for the recipients of these gifts…is the stuff miracles are made of….

The meaning of Christmas isn’t the accumulation and culmination of the most extravagant of material things…

If mass thought…words… and deeds…could move beyond selfishness…Peace and Goodwill would be ever abundant.

What Do You Want For Christmas?

You have five days to ponder….create…and make it so…

Christmas Miracles are always waiting to manifest and be delivered…

Search your heart…

Your Christmas gift… is there….

Christmas Wishes…

09 Dec 2021 Leave a comment

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Stevie Wonder released a song called “Someday At Christmas,” as a standalone single in 1966, then included it on his Christmas album in 1967…

Whenever I hear it I wonder why we don’t just make it happen…

Someday at Christmas men won’t be boys
Playing with bombs like kids play with toys
One warm December our hearts will see
A world where men are free

Someday at Christmas there’ll be no wars
When we have learned what Christmas is for
When we have found what life’s really worth
There’ll be peace on earth

Someday all our dreams will come to be
Someday in a world where men are free
Maybe not in time for you and me
But someday at Christmastime

Someday at Christmas we’ll see a land
With no hungry children, no empty hand
One happy morning people will share
Our world where people care

Whoa, someday at Christmas there’ll be no tears
When all men are equal and no man has fears
One shinning moment one prayer away
From our world today

Someday all our dreams will come to be
Someday in a world where men are free
Maybe not in time for you and me
But someday at Christmastime

Someday at Christmas man will not fail
Hate will be gone and love will prevail
Someday a new world that we can start
With hope in every heart, yeah whoa, yeah
(Someday in a world where men are free)
Maybe not in time for you and me
But someday at Christmastime
Someday at Christmastime

Songwriters: Bryan Wells / Ronald Miller Someday At Christmas lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC

Christmas Wishes…

Christmas wishes can become our reality…if our hearts were in the right place all the time…instead of moments in time…or one day of the year, dedicated to humanity showing some love and kindness…

If our hearts were in the right place at every given second of every moment…of every hour…of every day of our existence…and we directed all of our creative energy in producing such results…we could love one another unconditionally, and materialize the ideals expressed in this poignant and beautiful, Christmas song.

We can love one another unconditionally…

We can see beyond skin color and external diversity…right to the heart of each human being…knowing that it is the content of love that colors the individual…not their “winter coats” which will eventually shed and give way to the spectrum of “Light” reflective of the love operating within each and everyone of our souls…

Live…and let live…without infringements…understand “Free-Will.” It is a Universal right…not a “privilege” decided by those masquerading as “human beings.” They are shackled by their own chains of “self-worth.” Self-undoing is inevitable…especially where love is non-existent…

We can have Unity…

Resulting in Peace on Earth and goodwill toward all humankind….if we could just resonate beyond our own selfishness and egocentricity…

There is something greater than humanity.

Regardless of whether the finite reasoning of human intelligence cares to accept it…or not. Be it science or omnipotence…A greater force exists, and it demonstrates its presence every nanosecond in our perception of time…Yet, Humanity chooses to be blinded and captivated by its own self-worth at work all around us in the chaos continually created…cultivated, and practiced by entertaining factions that corrupt, destroy, and divide…in our country…and every country around the world…The trouble with people doesn’t have to be people…Sadly, this truth will not be understood before humankind experiences more enlightenment…born out of more extreme chaos….

Christmas Wishes…

When resistance subsides…and allows the power of love to change the hearts of those who choose chaos over peace…a new beginning for humankind will prevail…hopefully…in time for you and me…

Someday…at Christmas time….

That’s my Christmas wish…

Make it yours…

Allow your Christmas Star to shine…

It’s the Light of Love…

Knock and the door will be opened…

The door…is your heart.

December Is Here…The Last Month of The Year…

01 Dec 2021 Leave a comment

by alphaenlight in Daily, Food For Thought, Uncategorized Tags: , , , , , , , ,

Here we are…December 1st…the last month of the year…And what a year this has been!

Let’s take a moment to reflect on the last eleven months…really assess them and prepare ourselves for December and our passage into the New Year…

What have we learned?

Have we grown for the better?

Will our journey through the last eleven months open us up to wisdom, growth and change?

Do we understand our connectivity to the Human family, the Animal Kingdom and our environment…our planet?

Will we continue to take life for granted…or will we wake up to the truth of our contributions, or non-contributions…and take responsibility for our creations?

It is time to confront fears and monsters of our own making…conquer them….and lay them to rest.

December is a month of accumulation…introspection…standing up…taking action…dissolving…blessing and releasing…acceptance…moving forward….

Let us move forward welcoming in the holidays and a new place in our bodies…minds…and spirits for positive change…healing ourselves…healing our worlds…and healing the greater world and our planet.

We have a huge responsibility ahead…

We cannot go backwards…we must have the courage to move forward and preserve that which does not tear down or take us to dark places in history… which only serve to become weapons of humanity’s destruction and ultimate demise…The savagery of the soul…must be overcome to enlighten the human spirit…and clear the path to truly understand the meaning of Love…It isn’t just a four letter word…it is a way of life…and an endless journey of achievement…because temptation and free-will are extremely seductive…with endless side-paths leading away from the Ultimate Destination….

The Ultimate Destination isn’t what one thinks…yet it is the longing of every heart…every soul…

Allow the light bulb in your being to click on….and stay on…lighting your understanding to the evolution of humankind…and the invaluable part you are in achieving longevity and the best of human existence.

December is here…

You…are here…

Pave the way to a future where unity can be second nature in the way we respond to one another…and our planet…

Let’s build a better bridge into next month….

The last month of the year…Begins with Cheer…

December…is here.

A Matter of Choice…

29 Nov 2021 Leave a comment

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Everyday we are faced with making choices…and accepting the consequences of our choices…good or not so good outcomes…however, our choices just the same.

No one can make us do anything…they can present us with choices…which we ultimately will settle by making our choice, weighing the consequences of our choice, before we make it.

Some people choose to believe, demonstrate and declare that they are being forced into making choices that may or may not be agreeable to them or their lifestyle…. Taking that stance and making such accusations and assumptions free their conscience from taking responsibility for making a choice…any choice…especially if they view it as unfavorable to them.

Life is made up of moments and choices. Free-will is always exercised no matter how dire the outcome or circumstance…or how wonderful or brilliant the yield may be in making choices.

Very rarely do our choices not touch the lives and circumstances of others. Many choose (there it is again, “choice”) to believe that their choices do not affect anyone or anything other than themselves…

Not true.

Just because that is your belief and you do not always look beyond your choices, doesn’t make your choice solely unto you. The universe is based on connectivity to all things great and small…

So when you make your choices in life, consider the responsibility. Choices direct lives…make lives…take lives…destroy lives…break lives…give lives…extend lives…spare lives…respect lives…appreciate lives…humble lives…restore lives…

Strive to make the best possible choices and understand the consequences…and take responsibility.

Responsibility is also a Matter of Choice….

Live…and make responsible choices…

Don’t blame others…for the choices you make…

Your life…your choices.

Every choice creates a thread…

Every thread connects a life…moment…or universe.

Be grateful for the journey…

And create a “better.”

It’s your choice……

Thanks-In-Giving…

25 Nov 2021 Leave a comment

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Being thankful to give is the message today…

People hold the fate of the world in the palm of their hands. When we realize that being thankful means what we give to the world…not what we take from it…is the meaning of true “Thanksgiving,” we will see a new light of positivity emerge in the world and in our lives.

We must take a step back and take a good look around our created worlds which we have created within the reality of what is going on around us…truly…with honesty and reflection. What can you give to the world that will change your life and the lives of others in a most positive way…to ensure that the world keeps on turning…healing…and giving us the very air that we breathe?

What can we give to someone…anyone…to improve upon their condition of struggle…adversity…pain…or add to the smiles and selfless giving that does, somehow, seem to find you…in your moments of empty nothingness that strikes like a viper in the most inopportune of moments?

Giving thanks is more than sitting down at a dinner table and sharing a meal…one day out of the year. Understand the message of Covid-19…How appreciative are we of our times spent with loved ones and friends? Until we fully understand the meaning of “family”…of “friends”…of human connectivity…and how we mock the gift of life by holding selfish beliefs above selfless giving…the world will continue to experience loss in life…and loss… in humanity….

Give thanks in being capable of giving…

Give thanks in what you have been given…in goodness and wisdom…that you can pass on in contributing to make the world whole and give it strength in supporting life and adding longevity to its journey of existence in our galaxy.

The Earth does not restrict or withhold in giving her gifts of life…Why must we?

Thanksgiving is so much more than what it is chosen to represent…

Give thanks for “Thanks-In-Giving.”

Give thanks that you can….

Everyday we are given another day of life…

Another day to give thanks….

Another day to give…

Another day to be thankful…and understand…everything we have…was given.

Everyday…is Thanksgiving.

Happy Thanksgiving…

Happy Thanks-In-Giving!!!!

The Monotony of Madness…

01 Nov 2021 Leave a comment

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Here we are…the 11th month of the year…one month away from the close of another twelve months. Where are we? Step away from your life for one moment and ponder the thought, “Where are we?” How far has America progressed in the course of this year? Have we made any strides toward unifying the ocean of divide that runs through the cracks, fissures and gorges left behind by those sworn to rebuild and revitalize a country still riddled by the monotony of madness they created and continue to cultivate?

It is crucial that our structure of government and politicians past and present be carefully and meticulously scrutinized and held to accountability…unless their monotony of madness has become the American way of life, and living marginally is acceptable!

Late night hosts make jokes…

People are caught up in rebellion and protests about their “rights”…while Covid continues to find them…and lay “their rights” to rest…permanently.

The surge of weather changes which people in denial continue to relay as “normal changes which occur every 100 years” are swept away by floods, waves, fires, hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes and other dire demonstrations of nature…caused by man’s interference…resulting in climate change…which is well on it’s way to restructuring the planet…and human life.

Where does that leave us?

Stuck…in the Monotony of Madness….

Come In, November…

31 Oct 2021 Leave a comment

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As we end the month of October on a note of “Trick or Treat,” let us hope that November, beginning on the celebration of “All Saints Day, will bring in an air of promise and truth that will encourage a return to “human” kindness…Prayers…Blessings…and Offerings….not only to those souls that have passed on but also to those living souls who remain.

I attended a Halloween celebration where it was declared that everyone present was fully vaccinated…My mask was a part of my costume…I don’t trust what people declare…We had four years of people declaring lies as truth…and those same people are still traveling around America pushing the same lies!

Anyway, one person showed up without a mask, defending their UN-vaccinated presence, and their opinion on masks…Well, my opinion is this: STAY HOME WITH YOUR OPINIONS!!!

There is always “One.”

Spare those of us who have consideration for others as well as ourselves. You can honor your rights without including those who have the same right to their opinions and their rights to exercise them as you do.

We are still being plagued by the same divisions in our population with people rebelling and striking out in selfish defense of “their rights” without considering the rights of others….

It is unfortunate that we don’t understand our “connectivity” to one another…how what we do…say…and react, has a like reaction…and most often…opposite consequences for those who are respectful and considerate of others…innocent, collateral damage to “selfishness.”

Here’s the bottom line….”Be who you are…as long as it doesn’t adversely affect the lives of others. Ponder it…understand it…get it, and practice it. To subject others to your point of view may have dangerous consequences…and should that be the case? Keep your freedom, and keep to yourself, until the “coast is clear.”

Human nature is still predictable and disheartening at how we continue to ignore and dismiss the bigger picture….

Let’s see if November can usher in some “saintliness” within our spirits…enough to give us a respect and selflessness to give humanity a chance to survive beyond the next few decades…at minimum…

Happy Halloween!

Come in, November….

Bring us some… Enlightenment…

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