Hello everyone and Bright Blessings! This past Monday, the 24th, me and the kids were in the dark quite literally, as the power company turned off my electricity because I had not gotten the ridiculously high bill paid in full on time. That night, while sitting in the kitchen really late, in total darkness, a thought came to mind,when I lit a candle with three wicks, I realized that it was also the same candle that was given to me not long ago by someone very special to me, during the occasion when I went without power for three days while I was moving to my new apartment. I had unconsciously lit two wicks of this candle, and it made me think about the person that gave me the candle.The epiphany of that and the intentions of why I got this candle from this one specific person was not lost on me. It was not just about the candle and what I was using it for, but also about the person that gave it to me. The candle was not only just my light in the darkness, it was also a physical representation of thoughts and feelings from the person who gave it to me. It made me think hard about the many times that we had been each other's light during times of darkness.. Two brightly burning wicks.. was reminiscent of a visual image of twin flames. I also noticed that when I tried to light the third wick on the candle that the third wick would not stay lit, the hot wax would just put out the third wick and only leave the other two burning.
Such a small thing.. yet also such a deeply meaningful and enlightening experience. You often don't see the light until you are sitting completely in the dark. You sometimes don't really and truly realize what someone and something really means to you, and what a gift and a blessing they really are to your life until they are just not there anymore. Sometimes you have to be without them, or go without a certain something for awhile, and be in the dark without it, then something will happen to spark your conscious and make you realize and see the big picture for what it really is and not just what you would like to see. Just when you though the darkness was too much to endure..a spark of light appears to light the way.
The meaning I derived from the entire situation, as I sat there in very deep thought watching these two flames flicker and dance together,was that it may be during a sudden dark time in one or both of our lives before "two flames" will see each other and come together again, that even in the darkest of moments, only two flames will get to burn together, and another flame will be repeatedly put out and not be able to stay lit despite attempts being made at keeping it lit. Remember now, when I had three flames lit, and one kept being put out by the hot wax, and only two got to burn? Now my question remains is,what or whom does the third flame represent, what is the situation and who is the person that will not be able to stay "lit" and be repeatedly smothered out? That question has yet to be answered..I just hope it doesn't take another night of darkness before I see that answer come to light.
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