december 19, 2010

Today we lit the 4th Advent Candle, the yellow one for Earth.

Philip selected a great story called The Christmas Tree Club, by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey (1875-1961).  
It was about a girls' club that  did good deeds for needy children.  A good way to achieve a meaningful Christmas!


We set the figures of Joseph and the Ox in the creche.  Joseph is like Osiris.  He is a loving and protective father who provides good, dependable and stable material conditions for his children to grow up in.

Ray also selected a story, because we were not sure Philip would have time to look for a story.  The story Ray chose was called The Wooden Shoes of Little Wolff.  Because the story involved shoes, which is how we can walk all over the earth without hurting our feet, it corresponded to Earth...also because we ground (or "earth") ourselves through our feet.)  The story was also about the cause and effect of how caring deeds create magical results.