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Lighting my Candle

"The soul of man is the candle of God" (Proverbs 20:27) This is a perfect metaphor of the relationship to God. We, humans, work to prepare the candle. We do our best to create a good candle to offer to God, so that he may, at the proper time, lite it. While waiting for this to happen we should  pray/ask for His Intervention and continuously work on ourselves in order to keep improving. It doesn't matter how good we are: it's not a granted result that God will lite our candle. The right time it's all up to Him! I summarised the process: 1. Building the Candle (Your Part) ​You cannot light a flame without a physical vessel. "Building the candle" means doing the practical, human work to be and become the best of you. The Wax: represents your character traits—even the "messy" ones. ​The Wick: represents your will and your daily efforts. ​The Placement: means putting yourself in the right environment to be "lit." 2. The Waiting...
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Back to sun time

 


In Europe time changed last night. We are back to solar time. It has been a very strange Summer, which reminded me of the north European Summers I enjoyed so much because they were bearable. In Italy, to my perception, they are tough. When you are in the flat lands of the river Po valley because of the heavy humidity. In the center and in the south because it gets really hot.

Not last Summer though. And it was really awkward. In spite of enjoying my “ideal” Summer I felt a kind of uneasiness. My system memorised this kind of Summer in a northern European choreography, therefore it felt so strange, unusual, looking around and seeing the Italian  landscape appearing, so unexpected! It didn't match the memory!

Summer over, and we hoped in a warm and joyous Autumn, but we got rain instead. Just a continuous rain…

Now with an hour difference, at five in the the afternoon, it seems already evening…

 

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