A Soft, White Glowing Christmas

I promise to be brief here, but it’s on my heart after church service last night. You see, I still like what church offers me, or least the non-denominational church I go to, especially around the holidays. I still receive fulfillment and spiritual sustenance in the red-letter words of scripture because, hey, Jesus was the man!

And so, with that, HE is the Reason for the Season; my favorite season. Why? Well as an only child and born on Christmas day, I GOT SPOILED as a kid! I’m not going to mention how much that conditions the ego and then changes as you become an old adult, but I still get giddy when I see soft white Christmas lights against a pine green backdrop.

Something the pastor said last night went to my core.

“Overall,” from a 2019 study, “33% of respondents flat out said they just don’t enjoy the (Christmas) holidays anymore. Don’t you find it ironic, that what is overwhelmingly the most stressful time of the year is also the same season where we celebrate peace on Earth?”

To attempt to vanquish some unnecessary current holiday stress, take a moment right now and think back where you were spiritually one year ago; ready to enter the 2022 Christmas season and face the new year. Did you make promises to yourself to make substantial changes in your life this year? Was this the year where things were going to be different? Did you make good on those promises to yourself? If you are reading this, then you have definitely decided to be deliberate about entering a space, here with like-minded friends most likely looking for the same changes you are looking for.

I’ve said it before and it rings true for me; you don’t have to get all your “lifetime chores” done in this one lifetime, so stop putting so much pressure on yourself. Expectations and attachment to outcomes is all ego-based consciousness. We all make mistakes and poor choices and miss out on opportunities. We also make really good choices and for ALL of them are the lessons and tests planned and presented before us.

You’re doing great. Life IS NOT supposed to be perfect or else what would be the point? Life is perfect upstairs, remember? You got bored and curious; wanting to know what opposite felt like. That’s why you came downstairs, and you are here now. Embrace it. Love it and Live it. There is nothing to stress about-nothing really matters. It’s all just a great experiment for you as the creator of your own reality.

Merry Christmas my fellow soft, white Christmas lights!

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This first appeared in The Havok Journal on December 18, 2023.

Robb is a retired active Army veteran of 21 years, primarily serving as a Cavalry Scout. Having accomplished multiple combat tours, diverse global assignments and leadership roles, Robb retired as a First Sergeant of Shadow Troop, 1-33 CAV (Rakassans). From there, Robb went on to attempt his luck in the civilian sector as a Reliability Engineer at an international paper processing company during the pandemic. Not quite satisfied and feeling the draw to serve once again, Robb made his way back behind the gate working with some of the nation’s tip of spear warfighters on Fort Liberty, NC.

It was during this time that he was drawn into an esoteric spiritual journey of self-discovery and began peeling back the onion of how vanquishing spiritual warfare can serve as a personal force multiplier. Dropping all ties to dogmatic religious principles, Robb solely embarked into studies of the mystical and metaphysical for the answers of life. Now forged with this newfound purpose, Robb blends his current path of spiritual ascension along with his past experience of the rigors of military service in order to uplift the future of his brothers and sisters in arms.

“The answers we all seek lie in potential.”

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