The Darkness Around Us Is Deep: Solstice and Game Night
With this night of the year, I’m packing up games and working on a supermarket run for neighborhood sport night.
As twilight drops in early afternoon, my head swims through events from earlier this season (initially composed on Twitter).
Let me tell you a love story from last night:
We were conducting a huge board game event raising cash for @RileyChildrens. The lights blinked on and off- and a few of them collapsed if a LIVE electricity line near us moved down. We had just started a team Wits and Wagers trivia game once the hall plunged into darkness.
A cell phone flashlight turned. And a few more. They swiveled supporting the game boards such as footlights. A congregant who had simply provided us dinner filled holes with voitives and adhere candles as we kept playing. And people distributed these little lights to most of the tables. People made jokes.
We kept playing. I was actually relieved that the hall had not simply emptied out. Everyone was there buying things and committing into @RileyKids. Helping- attracting small lighting, sharing illumination.
This was much like…
when our daughter was having severe health difficulties. I felt lost in the dark. And somebody gave a small light to show the way. Afterward a few. Then many- each individual bringing exactly what they had to donate or…
amplifying the light of others even when they couldn’t create any themselves. I never had to locate a light myself, but might concentrate on the tasks at hand and also ongoing life already in progress.
It took me back into this gratitude and community support that is
#WhyIExtraLife, #WhyWeExtraLife. With my community, I fell in love From candlelight and the black all over again. Thanks, friends to be the light and sharing the light of the others.
On this long night of winter solstice it’s very fitting to return in the hot decoration of friends and community.
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