This was a video taken on New Year’s Eve a few years ago. Halved lemons were scooped and replaced with oil and a wick. We placed the lit oil lamps into the pond with prayers for peace and happiness.
“There is a light that shines beyond all things on earth, beyond us all, beyond the heavens, beyond the highest, the very highest heavens. This is the light that shines in our heart.”
– Upanishads
“We can be mirrors that brightly reflect the glory of the Lord.”
—2 Corinthians 3:18, The Living Bible
“Swift As A Star Flicker
Prayer, it does ascend
Up from the mind into the air
Through the highest cumulus
In an orange dusky skyAnd higher still, like a tailed comet
Out of earth’s realm of spiraling starlights
And into the black of space,
And higher stillPast a rare jeweled galaxy
With stars like sapphires, rubies, emeralds and diamonds
Where a nebulous cloud, a violet mountain births
Explodes new stars forthA factory place, a sandcastle of space
And higher still,
To the top of the highest universe-
That second skySwift as a star flicker
To God’s ear
An ear pressed close to the keyhole
Of that other Kingdom’s doorAn ear so fine
That it can hear
Unspoken prayer clear
As a trumpet’s mighty blareAnd God’s spirit reaches forth
Heaven descends
To companion the soul
That prays.”—Zellie M. Quinn
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