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Life As Twinkle Lights
by Matt Kahn

Ever since I was a child, the festivities of the winter holidays always captivated my senses with a feeling of magical amazement. One particular part I always looked forward to was seeing all the twinkle lights people would string around their houses, making the seemingly-average home now glow in illuminated spectacle.

Now as an adult, I reflect on memories such as the twinkle lights to discover a deeper meaning. On one hand, they are just lights strung together to decorate households that wish to be a part of the collective holiday experience, but as a student of consciousness, I realize they can also symbolize more.

For me, I came to understand how self-acceptance is about loving the seemingly weaker parts of ourselves, so that we may transition from the judgment of individual aspects of self to accepting the sum of our parts in collective gratitude.

We learn to accept all of who we are because every part of self is a connected aspect of the essence of Light the self embodies. To find the essence of Spirit in the unlikely parts of self, is the greatest way to expand our capacity to live in unconditional love. I then realized how human consciousness is like the twinkle lights I've always enjoyed. Each light is equally important in connecting with the others, to hold the energetic charge so light may shine throughout the entire strand, in radiant wholeness.

I then reflected on how often times most of the twinkle lights will glow with one pesky light not cooperating with the others. I began thinking of the various parts of self that I've always worked so hard to hide from the world…the parts I feared others would discover because it would surely prevent me from being seen as I hoped to be seen. These shadow parts of self are just like those pesky twinkle lights that remain unlit.

These lights are waiting for a current of energy to come along to make the experience better than what it's been, not realizing, whether lit or not, they are connected to an entire strand of twinkle lights already glowing. When the defiant twinkle light stops rejecting itself from the strand by feeling separate and different from the whole, its fuse connects with the others and now can share the spark needed for collective illumination.

These resistant twinkle lights are the parts of self that don't realize they are part of the complete connection already embodying the light they are waiting to discover. As the collective strand of twinkle lights we call humanity, we are free to allow self-acceptance to welcome every unlit twinkle light or unappreciated aspect of self to be seen as a vital part of the collective presence.

We recognize how an experience without all parts of self fully present may lead us to feeling incomplete or unfulfilled. To be fully present is to bring every part of you into full acceptance and may begin in any moment.

As this awakening occurs, we participate in a unifying glow as all twinkle lights individually harmonize into the collective beauty of our reality.

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