Parenting Blog

Happy December 24th!

Lighting candles at Chanuka, watching my children’s faces in the flickering candlelight as they sing.

As a child myself, turning off the house lights and trooping outside with my father to gaze in awe at the Christmas tree lights twinkling in our big front window.  

Christmas and Chanukah share a spiritual message: that it is possible to create miracles in a world of darkness and despair.  This truly is the season of miracles.

What miracle would make your life better this year?
Ask for it, right now.
Miracles happen every day.
Why not yours?
Then imagine your miracle has already happened.
Visualize it as a reality.   
Stay with that feeling.
From that place of excited joy, say thank you.
Hold that fulfilled feeling as long as you can.
Give up any attachment to how your prayer is answered
And just say thank you.
Revisit it many times a day, in every private moment you have,
Not with yearning but with gratitude,
Knowing that your miracle is on the way.
May your day be filled with miracles, large and small.