Hanukkah begins at sundown tonight. Do you know the story behind this light holiday? If you don’t, you need to read it. The story of Hanukkah is full of adventure and drama surrounding events leading up to a great miracle. It is a story of liberation, freedom, reclaiming what was lost and hope. Even if you are notContinue reading “Fun and Easy Ways to Shine Your Light: Celebrate the Hanukkah Story”
Category Archives: Celebrations
Fun and Easy Ways to Shine Your light: A Grattitude Tree
Take time during the holiday to create a tangible reminder of the blessings in your life. A gratitude tree may be made using a tree branch you bring inside. Try to use a branch that that has fallen on it’s own. Write things you are grateful for on leaves cut from paper, create a hangerContinue reading “Fun and Easy Ways to Shine Your light: A Grattitude Tree”
Fun and Easy Ways to Shine your Light: Be Nice
When you read todays topic you may have thought, REALLY? Do we need to be reminded of this during the holidays? Well apparently we do. It seems that each year during November and December we start hearing about things like brawls at the mall with people fighting over particular items that may be in shortContinue reading “Fun and Easy Ways to Shine your Light: Be Nice”
Fun and Easy Ways to Shine Your Light: Did Somebody Say Cookies?
Yes, it’s National Cookie Day, just in time for the holidays. Time to get started or at least start planning your holiday cookie baking. Maybe even time to think about hosting a cookie exchange. I love cookie exchanges because you can get as simple or fancy with this as you want. The basics are thatContinue reading “Fun and Easy Ways to Shine Your Light: Did Somebody Say Cookies?”
Fun and Easy Ways to Shine Your Light: Think Good Thoughts
We create our reality with our thoughts, so make them good ones. You have to work at this folks, but it is well worth the effort. Remember it’s not what happens to us, it’s how we think about and react to it that matters. We make our world heaven or hell through our thoughts. Continue reading “Fun and Easy Ways to Shine Your Light: Think Good Thoughts”
Fun and Easy Ways to Shine Your Light: Continue Your Spiritual Practice
It is important that we continue on our regular spiritual path during the holidays. Do not let your daily practices get lost in the busyness of the season. Continue to make time each day to meditate, pray, read from sacred texts or devotional materials and any other spiritual practices that are a regular part ofContinue reading “Fun and Easy Ways to Shine Your Light: Continue Your Spiritual Practice”
This Little Light of Mine…
I’m going to let it shine. But shining our light in the world can be difficult, especially during the often frantic holiday season, can’t it? Could you use a few ideas for fun and easy ways to let your light shine during the holidays? Well, I’ve got them. From now until the end of DecemberContinue reading “This Little Light of Mine…”
A Healthier Holiday Meal That Still Tastes Good
As the holidays approach many of us will start planning holiday meals. If one of your holiday traditions is spending three days in a “food coma” from overindulging stop and think, is it really worth it? Is it really enough fun, to make yourself sick over? This year I would like to offer a fewContinue reading “A Healthier Holiday Meal That Still Tastes Good”
Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Bars
Okay so the cookies in the picture aren’t bar cookies. They aren’t even from the same recipe. But my camera is not working so I thought this photo would be better than none at all. You will have to imagine soft, cake like bars with that pumpkin-chocolate goodness. Sounds good doesn’t it? Chocolate Chip PumpkinContinue reading “Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Bars”
Positive Thinking Day
Today, September 13 is Positive Thinking Day. No surprise I latched onto this one, right? One truth in this world that I do know is that we all create our own reality with our thoughts. You really are what you think, so we all really want to be careful of what we let into ourContinue reading “Positive Thinking Day”
espirational.com 