All Inner Christmas messages are gifts for you. Make them your own through inspired reflection. Share them with those you hold dear and let them be the beginning of a creative and heart-freeing conversation. Dance with them. Dive deep with them. Leap into the heights with them as during the Twelve Holy Nights we live beyond time and space and find the spiritual conditions for profound creative play.

Thursday, December 24, 2009

The Theme - Inner Intentions

The Meaning of “Inner”


Let’s begin with inner.  Inner refers to the inmost life of the individual, the sense of self least shaped and affected by the outer forces of family, traditions, culture, and times. A place where you are free of the challenges of your biology and the prejudices of your biography.  Inner is the place where you find yourself free to be your truest self.

Each year during the Twelve Holy Nights the path to your individual inmost being is easiest to find and follow.  Between December 25 and January 6, an inner star, a personal sun, a sun being, lights your way and guides you into yourself, to your inmost self. 

In your inmost self, you touch, you discover, you connect with your truest thoughts, your most harmonious feelings and the goodness living in your will to act. 

When you reach the inmost place of self you come to know the greatest mystery of the inner experience: you are suddenly capable of the most powerful outer gestures. Going in leads you out as a portal lies at the core of your inner life, the threshold between what you strive for and what you manifest.

Designed by your truest thoughts and visible to your most harmonious feelings, this portal is the entry to your destiny. Your will filled with goodness opens the portal and carries you across its threshold. You stand in the portal and cross the threshold as the true, beautiful and good expression of your individuality, a spiritual being seeking to fulfill your destiny in the material world and an earthly being expressing your ineffable and eternal spiritual essence.

The Meaning of “Intention”



Intention is an imagination of a purposeful course of action.  By intending, we gather our will forces in service of a potential result, ideally a desired, ultimately good result.

The inner intentions I write about over Twelve Holy Nights are universal intentions that form our individuality. They live in all of us as the processes by which we become uniquely ourselves. The degree that we are able to imbue these intentions with adequate will forces supported by right thinking and right feeling brings all our other intentions into the world as full expressions of our individuality and our humanity.

These intentions create right knowledge and right relationship. I don’t say “right” with arrogance or righteousness or fundamentalism. "Right" indicates the knowledge and the relationship are living in freedom and flowing with love.

The Twelve Intentions

The first seven intentions come to our creative knowing and describe the processes through which we experience what lives outside us, how the experience dwells within us and finally how we evolve the experience into something the moves out of us.  With each message I am certain you will find a clearer understanding of yourself.  You will find a new freedom for your creative and fulfilling future.

The final five intentions will explore how we love. These five shape our relationship to all things. 

Knowledge and relationship, freedom and love connect with the beginning and end of the Twelve Holy Nights - the Nativity and the Epiphany.  You can find within the creative knowledge and the loving relationship the full gesture of your innocence and of your wisdom.  You express your individuality and your humanity in dynamic and exquisite balance. You are absolutely you in the moment.

6 comments:

  1. I wanted to print the inner christmas guide, but there is a problem, it gets hung up and won't let me print it. :o(

    Debra Masters
    mystic_blue.rose@yahoo.com

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  2. Debra, hi -- are you using the latest Acrobat reader? (Under Help on the menu choose "About Adobe (or Acrobat) Reader" -- and it will state the "version" number which is now 9.2. The Guide has a somewhat complex font and might not be working with your printer from an older version of Acrobat.

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  3. So glad to be settling into the Inner Christmas; this is becoming a cherished Christmas tradition.

    Each year we attend Tom Foley's Celtic Christmas, a mix of Irish story-telling, music and dance. Twenty years ago we sat on folding chairs in our little town hall. Now the show tours a dozen cities, and we'd no more miss the matinee than forget to put up the Christmas tree!

    The light of these meditations grows in such warmth, as thousands of us light our candles and tuck into the nightly soul-review.

    Every Christmas, one line from a Christmas carol jumps out at me and sort of becomes the theme for that year's Christmas. This year, it's an entire song, one they often perform, The Welcome by Tony Small:

    On each and every single day
    I promise I will kneel and pray
    I'll listen to what you have to say
    And then when my day is done
    And I want to be alone,
    These tokens will help me on my way.

    A key to the door
    A ship to the shore
    A place on that last bus going home
    A key to the door
    A ship to the shore
    A candle in the window, the welcome.

    As I walk these streets alone,
    I feel your hand upon my own,
    There's comfort in your company today
    And I can smile at days gone by
    Before there was a you and I,
    Crazy days when I had strayed away

    A key to the door
    A ship to the shore
    A place on that last bus going home
    A key to the door
    A ship to the shore
    A candle in the window, the welcome.

    The seasons come, the seasons go,
    The wheel turns round fast and slow,
    The more I find out, the less I know,
    Now my heart is longing for
    A night beside the ocean's roar,
    A place on that last bus to your door.

    A key to the door
    A ship to the shore
    A place on that last bus going home
    A key to the door
    A ship to the shore
    A candle in the window, the welcome...

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  4. Thank you, Lynn for sharing these once again. Your Inner Christmas messages are a beautiful contribution to the Christmas season.

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  5. suckling,
    sometimes it is enough to
    simply open to the soul food
    to make the inner gesture of emptying
    through surrender
    to allow the food of life

    i have seen the spirits of the dying
    drink the music i have played
    like suckling infants as they
    are born again to the eternal

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  6. maintaining

    making space

    for looking at the rain
    breathing into, feeling touch,

    remembering, making whole,
    is allowing that which is broken open to be

    trusting in faith
    the conviction of things unseen

    to hold us in our being
    to be with us in our holding

    weaving our gold into a chalice for God

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