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For the holiday table, I pulled out my favorite festive candles – long, elegant hand-dipped tapers from the mystic city of Tsfad in Israel.

When I opened the box, I gasped with surprise to find their upper ends crooked and bent. Then I remembered: the last time I moved internationally, my household belongings were shipped through the Panama Canal to meet up with me in Arizona. These candles were part of the shipment that slowly traveled through the sluices in equatorial heat.

Remembering the long journey they had come, I looked at the candles with more interest. Indeed, they appeared like two solitary figurines, remolded by the intensity of the journey they had come. Indeed, they represented a metaphor of life experienced by many of us: outwardly, we may appear a little worse for wear from the intensity of our journey; bruised, bent and changed, yet not broken.

With their crooked tips, the prospects for clean burning did not look too promising. And yet, these courageous little travelers had managed to arrive in one piece. I decided to light them anyway and see how they would do.

Imagine my delight when their flames reached gently upward, despite the damaged wax.  Soft light radiated from the elegant tapers as the flames consumed the crooked wax. The setbacks of their journey were now transformed into a gentle glow that filled the room.

That’s when it hit me: the light from a crooked candle remains pure at its core. Its external appearance truly does not diminish its function or beauty.

Are you feeling like a crooked candle, bowed down under the burdens of your life? 

You may even appear a little bruised and bent from your life’s journey. And yet, your potential for being a beacon of pure light remains untarnished within.

The potential to transform the world exists within you, despite the knocks that life has handed you.

Your highest purpose is to be a beacon of light, allowing the radiance of your Source to transform darkness into light. This Divine potential within is the greatest gift you have to offer. It can transform fear into trust, despair into hope, and sadness into warmth and cheer.

Do you feel bowed down, overwhelmed by the burdens of life?  Stretched to the max? Then turn to Divinity within and reconnect to the perfection of your Source. You are not broken yet! Your potential may be constrained but it is not destroyed.

Let the Light of Divinity in you burn brightly. It will light your way and point the way for others to find their way toward light and truth.

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