I thought I would share this piece I wrote to read at Phoenix/ Oakham Spiritual group when I was Chairing a couple of years ago.

Hope you like it …

‘Winter Solstice, a time for Spiritual Rebirth …

The Winter Solstice heralds a time of change, a time for spiritual rebirth, a time when all darkness is overcome with a new energy and birthed in the coming of the light. It is while the Earth is sleeping, and the kindling fire awakens that we may best gather energy from the Universal reserves. A time to allow ourselves to realise with a fuller and more accurate understanding that choice, not chance, determines our destiny.

Choose to Accept the Positive and join with kith and kin, remember with blessings, those who have gone before. Garnish your Soul with warmth and company or privacy, as is your choosing. Allow this time of retreat to transform any dark thoughts of the past year. Take a moment to reflect, allow this new energy to fill you, with hope and positive attraction.

Allow the Light inside of you to fire a new determination, and bring life to your dreams and plans. Sing the joyous carols of the season, find comfort in this time of rebirth. Then when you are ready, return to your everyday life, emerging with a little more hope, a little more resolve, and most of all, a little more Love.

Take from this, the Winter Solstice, the knowledge that every situation, no matter how hard or challenging, can be turned into light with one word: Choice. Choose to accept positive attraction, remembering that every dark night will give way to a bright new day. Know that our Earth will provide; that when we combine our Divine and Sacred energies in the interest of the Greater Good, there is nothing that we cannot accomplish …’