Incarnate: placed in human form and realized

Outside it is still dark and the twenty-two flickering flames create both light and shadow on my walls. Across the bookcase, over the television armoir and then onto the other bookcase are jar candles and tea lights each holding a flame lit with intention, gratitude and hope; each bit of light making what is within me alive and deliberately present in life as my words were spoken and the match touched the wick.

Thank you for creating us to carry Your light and love into the world.
Thank you for the privilege of bringing three new souls into life.
Thank you for being with David and Adam and Luke and guiding them in this day.
Thank you for Steve being part of my life in the creation of these souls; Beings of uniqueness and gift for Life.
Thank you for guiding me in being a mother during this time of life.

Thank you for the friends and companions you have sent to me.  
Thank you for my family; the soil of life my Being grew in; thank you for Mom and Dad;thank you for my brothers and sisters.
Thank you for wondering eyes to see the blessings you place in my life today.
Thank you for wondering eyes to see your beauty in all that is living.

Thank you for male and female energies that emerged from You; the source of All life.
Thank you for new life created as Your energies flow through each of us.
Thank you for the creative transformation of my Being; the evoking, development and strengthening of my gifts to be offered to the world. Thank you for the courage to be who you created me to be through the use of my gifts.
Thank you for the generosity that enabled this special time of growing these past two years.

Thank you for 'I don't know' as my response to confusions; words that create space allowing your Spirit to flow and create new understanding within me.
Thank you for the artists of Living; past and present who have had the courage to be vulnerable and share their gifts that we might be encouraged and strengthened by words and all forms of art.
Thank you for providing all that I need with a gracious plenty: all that I need today is given to me for enjoying and participating in the fullness of life, for this knowing I give deep thanks.

And then the final candle that shines behind the nativity scene; an heirloom from my mother: thank you for this Season of deliberate remembering that You are indeed incarnate: embodied in human form.
Thank you for placing within me the knowing that You are incarnate, not just in Jesus, but in me: in each and every person who lives; thank you for giving me eyes of wonder to see Your Beauty in each person I meet today.

Incarnate: placed in human form and realized. "The word of God was made flesh and dwelt among us."  The word of God is made flesh and dwells among us and is realized.  Realized: present as real.  The Word of God is present and real today within each of us: each of us carries the Word of God as our personal and unique energy for Living.

And, what is the Word of God?  Love. "Love one another as I have loved you."  Jesus came and showed us what "love" as the Word of God means for energy of living. Jesus taught us love as kindness, nobility, generosity, benevolence, understanding, compassion, creative transformation, forgiveness, faith in what is not yet seen and willingness to be present to the companions God gives us.

The flames are still flickering as I end this writing.  They flicker, reminding me that my words of intention create presence in Life; they mean that this Spirit of Life is realized, is present, is within me and therefore, my expectation of today is that the Word of God is present to me within the moments of my living. May each of you also know this experience of living as real.