During the Christmas season one of the things I enjoy seeing is all the Christmas lights decorating homes and in windows. In the long December nights these lights bring a cheerful confrontation to the dark. The daylight hours again lengthen, and we are amazed at how much impact the amount of light can have on a sense of well being and disposition.
All the Christmas light that is outside is a small fraction of all the Christmas light that is within you.
Jesus/Yeshua says to us, “I offer life which expands in radiance and peace. I offer this expansion of my life in the mind and heart and awareness of those devoted to me as a way of self forgiveness, forgiveness of others, and abundant life in my light.”
John’s Gospel says, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came into being. What has come into being in him was life, and the life was the light of all people. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it… The true light, which enlightens everyone, was coming into the world… to all who received him, who believed in his name, he gave power to become children of God.”
Light or radiance is the energy of communion and thus community. Each of us in Yeshua’s presence is a source of communion. Our meditation together enlivens the life communion between Yeshua and those who perform the devotional offering of meditation.
The radiant body of Yeshua goes beyond the physical body, and has a cosmic structure. That structure is manifest in each person as the image of God. But we live lives that are full of suffering, that are disoriented to the wholeness of the radiant body of Yeshua. That is why meditation is so important. In the spiritual practice and devotion of meditation we are in a process of consecration to God. This is healing and transcendence and awakening in the Mind of Christ.
When we meditate with the Name of Yeshua we are offering our suffering that has destroyed our wholeness, peace and joy into the Name for healing and release for liberation. The Name is the wholeness of radiance/light. Meditating with attention to this Name the flow of devotional love - the devotional love that Yeshua has for us, his devotion to and for us - serves to heal the areas of life which cry out in the heart’s desire. This flow of love achieves communion between the whole person and the wholeness of Yeshua. The word Yeshua orients the heart’s desire, purifies it. The response of love by Jesus always transcends the desire, meeting it in its own place with love. The response of Yeshua’s love offering is a beam of his heart’s radiance/light arising from the fullness of his Name.
All the Christmas light that is outside is a small fraction of all the Christmas light that is within you.
Christmas blessings in the Lamb
The Rev. Beverly Hosea
