The Small Book of Light

By Vicky Weston

Men and women have dragged themselves up from extremes of
degradation- they have overcome physical disabilities, limiting
belief systems, in pursuit of an ideal or dream.
Willpower, aspiration a trust that all will be well can overcome
so much, we can transform ourselves, seek the light, this is the
way of the pilgrim, this is the will of the Source for all there
can be no other.
May your Source always be with you.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris NZ
• Release date: Jul 8, 2014
• ISBN: 9781493191994

Vicky Weston

Vicky Weston grew up in Africa. She has traveled extensively, by boat and motor home, gathering material for her books. She is a Water colorist, a pen and Ink Artist, and reads extensively. She lived in France for several years, spending winters in Spain and Portugal, and is now retired and lives in New Zealand.

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Copyright © 2014 by Vicky Weston.

Library of Congress Control Number:   2014911199

ISBN:      Hardcover      978-1-4931-9198-7

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Contents

Chapter 1: Light Your Candle

Chapter 2: Why Journey?

Chapter 3: The Web of Life

Chapter 4: Thy Will Be Done

Chapter 5: A Path of Service

Chapter 6: The Steps of the Temple

Chapter 7: Slow Down

Chapter 8: Being in the Now

Chapter 9: Finding Peace

Chapter 10: Listen

Chapter 1

Light Your Candle

O n a protruding finger of sandstone above the sea on the Algarve in Portugal is a tiny white chapel. Like many others, it’s a place of great peace, and there in a cool interior is a small altar with carved and painted statues of the Virgin Mary and child, St Francis of Assisi, and some of his animal friends; the ancient stone steps are rush-matted to soften their hardness because several old women come here every day to kneel before the Virgin, and they are often joined by a number of tourists. The women offer up prayers each day, asking blessings for their menfolk, who put to sea every day in brightly coloured boats from the beach below the cliff, and for their families.

When they leave, nearly all of them light a candle, planting them on the spikes of the battered tin tray beside the outer door. The tourists who come here gaze out to sea along the lines of the cliffs or down to the beach below with its fishing boats and drying nets, sharing the chapel’s spaces while adding their own prayers.

Many of them also light a candle as they leave, a way of asking something, of giving light to a sometimes-gloomy world, a tangible form of expression of their inner desire to make a difference. As they turn to leave, they look back at the small flame they have ignited as if almost unwilling to part from it.

We all find a time comes when that yearning wells up within us. It’s as if a spark has blossomed, which needs to find expression in a flame, physically or in aspiration, and we are not satisfied until it does; lighting a candle is one way of seeing that yearning manifested.

More and more people are turning towards the ‘Light’; they may not yet be clear in their minds as to what form the expression of that yearning will take, but the urge to see things change is a powerful one, and never more so than now, when the vibe is quickening, turning people’s thoughts to higher things. The urge to light our candle becomes strong within us—not just the physical wax candle with its small flame but manifesting the greater light of love latent or growing within every one of us.

We sometimes see people around us who make a difference to life. They appear to possess inner strength; they stand up to the darkness around them. Others seek them out in times of trouble, and they are always ‘there’, always willing to give of themselves and their time to anyone. They ask no questions and make no judgements; they simply live to do what has to be done.

Nobody says they have to do this, and they expect no reward; they have simply chosen to be ‘Lights’ amid the gloom in their communities and out in the wider world.

‘You’ can learn to be like them.

It may be why you picked up this little book, drawn by its title. Among these pages, you will find small thoughts to help you on your journey. The first of these is, ‘Don’t be afraid to ask or to open yourselves to the Light. Don’t be hesitant about lighting your own candle!’

Many of us are in a prison, unable or unwilling to open up windows in our walls of habitual fears. We can find ourselves limited by family tradition—what our parents always did—by narrow perceptions and restrictive dogmas. We load all this upon ourselves, honouring old beliefs or second-hand prejudices which are not even ours but the inheritance of generations of restrictive ideas and behaviours.

Many want to see you stay in your prison. They will try to reinforce your fears, but always remember the choice is ‘Yours’, not theirs. Stand up to the fearmongers, break down the barriers, open up windows and doorways in your walls, and become free as you are meant to be. Free to look, free to decide, free to Live again! To be the ‘Being of Light’ God intended you to be.

Each of us carries a temple within. If going to your own church works for you, that’s fine, but many folk nowadays want to be