OPENING THE THEME OF THE RETURN OF THE LIGHT:
Today the time of growing darkness has come full stop.
We pause. We watch. We listen.
Forces far beyond us are moving and we feel their power.
Tonight marks the darkest of hours. We celebrate that darkness. We know that we need it.
Darkness has been a place of growth, of introspection, of quiet formation.
We have listened deeply in the nights of December to our hearts calling.
We have given ourselves permission to go deep, face our fears, find strength in our inner core.
Now, as we light the lights of rebirth, of hope, of clarity, we gather the strength which darkness as allowed us to nurture and we start to bring it forward.
Light in darkness can stand for hope in an age of despair, truth in a time of casual falsity, youth springing out of the body of age, clarity in a fog of doubt, the symbols are many.
Tonight each of us takes a candle of our own and, as it is lit, we silently fill it with the joys and sorrows of our present lives.
(Hand out votive candles to all. Quiet music on guitar)
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