"The Believer"
This is from Marion Ryan's newsletter, received today.
Marion's website is http://www.marionryan.com
With thanks to G K Chesterton who wrote this, Sarah Ban Breathnach who quoted it in her book, "Romancing the Ordinary" and Judith Morgan who shared it with the Three Wise Women:
"What has happened to me has been the very reverse of what appears to be the experience of most of my friends. Instead of dwindling to a point, Santa Claus has grown larger and larger in my life until he fills almost the whole if it. It happened in this way.
As a child I was faced with a phenomenon requiring explanation. I hung up at the end of my bed an empty stocking, which in the morning became a full stocking. I had done nothing to produce the things that filled it. I had not worked for them, or made them or helped to make them. I had not even been good - far from it.
And the explanation was that a certain being whom people called Santa Claus was benevolently disposed toward me...
And as I say, I believe it still. I have merely extended the idea. Then I only wondered who put the toys in the stocking; now I wonder who put the stocking by the bed, and the bed in the room, and the room in the house, and the house on the planet, and the great planet in the void.
Once I only thanked Santa Claus for a few dolls and crackers, now I thank him for stars and street faces and wine and the great sea.
Once I thought it delightful and astonishing to find a present so big that it only went halfway into the stocking. Now I am delighted and astonished every morning to find a present so big that it takes two stockings to hold it, and then leaves a great deal outside.
It is the large and preposterous present of myself, as to the origin of which I can offer no suggestion except that Santa Claus gave it to me in a fit of peculiarly fantastic goodwill."
I hope you're enjoying the holiday season, whether Santa Claus is a part of your heritage or not... gratitude is a Universal Gift to oneself and the world!
No matter the name we assign to the Supreme Force we thank for our blessings, it's good to be reminded that -- although we seem so small to ourselves -- we are a part of something so HUGE that sometimes I wish we'd all just stop trying to name it, stop fighting over our definitions of it, and live in our gratitude, enjoying and sharing what's been given to us, knowing we are ALL -- EACH AND EVERY ONE -- an equal part of the Ultimate Creative Force!
Success, Wealth, Happiness & Health!
Laurie
http://www.ProsperityMeditation.com
http://lauriekristensen.powerfulintentions.com/
Marion's website is http://www.marionryan.com
With thanks to G K Chesterton who wrote this, Sarah Ban Breathnach who quoted it in her book, "Romancing the Ordinary" and Judith Morgan who shared it with the Three Wise Women:
"What has happened to me has been the very reverse of what appears to be the experience of most of my friends. Instead of dwindling to a point, Santa Claus has grown larger and larger in my life until he fills almost the whole if it. It happened in this way.
As a child I was faced with a phenomenon requiring explanation. I hung up at the end of my bed an empty stocking, which in the morning became a full stocking. I had done nothing to produce the things that filled it. I had not worked for them, or made them or helped to make them. I had not even been good - far from it.
And the explanation was that a certain being whom people called Santa Claus was benevolently disposed toward me...
And as I say, I believe it still. I have merely extended the idea. Then I only wondered who put the toys in the stocking; now I wonder who put the stocking by the bed, and the bed in the room, and the room in the house, and the house on the planet, and the great planet in the void.
Once I only thanked Santa Claus for a few dolls and crackers, now I thank him for stars and street faces and wine and the great sea.
Once I thought it delightful and astonishing to find a present so big that it only went halfway into the stocking. Now I am delighted and astonished every morning to find a present so big that it takes two stockings to hold it, and then leaves a great deal outside.
It is the large and preposterous present of myself, as to the origin of which I can offer no suggestion except that Santa Claus gave it to me in a fit of peculiarly fantastic goodwill."
I hope you're enjoying the holiday season, whether Santa Claus is a part of your heritage or not... gratitude is a Universal Gift to oneself and the world!
No matter the name we assign to the Supreme Force we thank for our blessings, it's good to be reminded that -- although we seem so small to ourselves -- we are a part of something so HUGE that sometimes I wish we'd all just stop trying to name it, stop fighting over our definitions of it, and live in our gratitude, enjoying and sharing what's been given to us, knowing we are ALL -- EACH AND EVERY ONE -- an equal part of the Ultimate Creative Force!
Success, Wealth, Happiness & Health!
Laurie
http://www.ProsperityMeditation.com
http://lauriekristensen.powerfulintentions.com/
posted by Laurie K. at 1:15 PM
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