I've had a 'visitor' the last few weeks that I have not had for a few years -- the Spirit of Christmas. This is not a post about if it is better to feel the Christmas Spirit or not, or why now at this time I am experiencing it when I hadn't for the last few years, or even what the Spirit of Christmas means. This is a post about trusting the Spirit that we have.
The last few years I have been in the spirit of simplicity and calm and quiet. I have done my best to allow myself to follow the ebb and flow of the different spirits coming and going whether they were in tune with what others were doing, or what society was doing, or not. That is not to say there were not moments when I felt it would have been nice to feel a bit of Christmas Spirit, but the truth was I just didn't.
A couple of times during the last few Christmas Seasons I had wondered if maybe I had just out grown having the Spirit of Christmas and that it would probably never return to what I had felt before, and that was O.K. too. Then, low and behold, to my surprise, this year I started to notice a whiff of Christmas Spirit here, and a whisper of it there, until it became constant enough that I actually felt like following it with some action. But, my point being, I didn't go looking for it. I didn't force myself to be in the Christmas Spirit, or avoid it. It is just what naturally occurred, like an unexpected but welcome visitor.
So whatever the season or occasion or activity or celebration you are in throughout the year, trust the Spirit that is really You.
LOP is knowing it is 'alright' to trust the Spirits within because they are 'all right.'