Sometimes in this blog, I wench a lot. In fact, more often than not, I am wenching about something. Sometimes I do it comically, sometimes I do it without any grace or precision whatsoever. And then sometimes, I am inspired to say something more.

I believe that there are Lightbearers on this planet. The task of being a Lightbearer is to illuminate where darkness is, has been, and to heal wounds left behind when darkness has left damage in its wake. Everyone, I believe, unless you are something other that human, has the potential to be a Lightbearer. Some people are born knowing they are here to do something to help, to heal, to be of service to others. Some people discover it later. Some people have to journey through darkness to discover that they have the ability, and the choice, to hold light. Each Lightbearer has a specific talent, sometimes many talents that create joy and happiness where it was not before.

So, I believe that there is a spark of the divine in each one of us. When we recognize someone we’ve never met, when we meet someone we never expected to meet, when we become amazed, awed, overwhelmed by beauty, by art, by performance, by music, by a story, by reality, and we feel so incredible in that moment-that is a connection to the divine.

Really, we have that spark all the time. It can become difficult in ordinary, normal, uneventful days to forget about it. But I think the point is that we are supposed to create it, bring it out to shine on those days, to look for something amazing within the apparently mundane.

Think of how terrible is feels to be lost, disconnected, to feel unimportant, untalented, unloved, unnoticed, unappreciated, unrecognized. That is a smothering of your spark. Sometimes it’s you, doing it to yourself. Sometimes it’s others who have snuffed their spark, or have forgotten.

Don’t forget. Remember the truth. If you’ve snuffed out your spark, rekindle it. There is no finding yourself. You create yourself. Answers are within you, and all around you. I wish you all well, and to be at peace, and to enjoy the magic of the season, but to keep it with you, all year round, by remembering your spark.