Easter©

As I was driving to Circle this morning, I listened to a song I haven’t heard in a couple of years, “Hold you in the Light” from Kit Holmes album “Return to Love“.  The words to the song are:

 

It’s in your eyes – The questions of the ages

There are challenges and changes – In everything you see

It’s hard to trust – And sometimes the best of us

Can lose our way – That’s why I’m here to say

          I’m gonna hold you in the light – Hold you in the light

          Hold you til you know again – That everything’s alright

          And I’ll remind you – As you are, you are enough

          I’m gonna hold you in the light – Of love

It’s in your hands – There are angels in the answer

Choose your second chances – This is where you’re meant to be

Don’t second guess – Life will give you all the happiness

That you deserve – Rest assured

I’m gonna ask you to remember – That you have everything you need

Every time you look into a mirror – ’cause no matter where life finds you

The light of love surrounds you – You’ll always have the only words 

You’ll ever need to hear

          I’m gonna hold you in the light – Hold you in the light

          Hold you til you know again – That everything’s alright

          And I’ll remind you – As you are, you are enough

          I’m gonna hold you in the light – Of love

 

Kit Holmes played this song at the church I was attending.  I listened to this song over and over as it brought me such comfort to know that I was being held in the Light of Love.  The verses mirrored the changes in my life.  My husband died.  I had profound grief.  I sold the home I was living in, and my son and his wife invited me to stay with them as long as I needed.  I looked for a home in a different area, found it, and moved.  I had health issues.  I had family issues.

 

Yet through it all I knew that I was held in the Light of Love, feeling my husband’s and Spirit’s presence as I made each decision, noticing how smooth things flowed as I started a new life in a new location with new friends and new spiritual connections.  It was a death inside me in many ways, a resurrection of myself in a different way, renewal of my life focus, and a knowing that something wonderful is happening every moment if I stay aware.

 

The first holiday my husband and I had was Easter, so it has special meaning for me that is religious, spiritual, and personal.  This Easter, Reggie and I give thanks that our lives have been, and are, held in the Light of Love always.   Nancy and Reggie♥