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December 16
Magic
Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it. (Roald Dahl)
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I know that at Christmas time kids wait and wait and wait for the MAGIC that is Santa Claus bringing them a bunch of presents. But for me the MAGIC is more of an adult kind. A MAGIC children (at least most children) hopefully don’t normally have to stop and think about in their young lives. For ME the MAGIC really happens at church on Christmas Eve.
At the end of the service every year in churches around the world, candles are passed out, the lights are turned off, and the candles are lit one from another as those gathered sing Silent Night. THAT’S when the real MAGIC of Christmas happens for me as I look around at all the hopeful faces. For in that little space of time between the lines of the song, I can feel the belief renewed in my heart that someday we will all “sleep in heavenly peace” here in our world.
What a MAGICAL world this would truly be if we could all go to bed at night with no fears or anxieties because somehow, MAGICALLY, out of the darkness the world had finally become as peaceful and soft as the glow of all those candles…
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Picture Source:
Stocking — Harula
Passing the Light — Pinterest
Candlelight Service — High Point University
Impromptu Promptlings 
So beautifully said, Calen…I wish for that too.
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Beautiful. Singing together and lighting candles brings us back to something so simple and primal – light and sound, harmony, sharing…I think we yearn for that kind of vulnerable simplicity and this season gives us ‘permission’ in a way to believe in that kind of magic again for a while. Oh yes, I agree, we HAVE to keep believing…much love, Harula xxx
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I like the way you put it, that this season “gives us permission” to believe in that kind of magic again. I doubt our race could ever exist without the renewed doubt that there’s something better to come — sometime…
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This is a lovely post. I love this: “For in that little space of time between the lines of the song, I can feel the belief renewed in my heart that someday we will all “sleep in heavenly peace” here in our world.”
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To believe the unbelievable.. (I think I actually get that from Man of La Mancha!)
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I always love that singing carols by candle light 🙂
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There’s something about it that seems very vulnerable and intimate to me. Is that weird to describe it like that?
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No, not at all. It evokes similar feelings in me too. I think it’s the whole Christmas thing that comes wrapped up in it.
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If only it was that easy. What a world of conflict, power and greed we create.
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We HAVE to keep believing, Opher!!! ❤
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