The Twelve Nights of Christmas: #7, Luminosity.
Look back at your darkest moments of the last year, and remember what qualities in yourself and others lit the way for you.
The darkest hours are often the most beautiful, if you open your eyes. Too often they're clamped down tight from pain or fear.
For nearly the entire year, I experienced intermittent pain and stiffness in my hands, shoulders and feet. I never received a "legal diagnosis" and for that I am so grateful. I have no label, no i.d. tag to walk around with in sickness, and in health. As the year ends, the symptoms have subsided.
While I did receive care and sympathy, healing treatments and assistance, one of the greatest gifts that I received was the assumption that the condition was transient. The other was my realization that I could be happy, even while in pain. It was like being in another state, a foreign environment even, but there with my own toothbrush and wearing my favorite Mephisto sandals. I was just visiting. If I had staked a claim, I may still be living there.
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