Happy 2013!

Wishing You a Prosperous &

Happy New Year!

 

Genius will be closed Monday December 31-January 1

Genius Closed Dec 24-25, 2012

Also note that we will be closing at noon, Friday, December 21st.

Christmas Holiday Time and Lights

For most people, no matter what their religious affiliation or preference, the Christmas time holiday season is the highlight of the year.  It may have varying significance to each, but all like to celebrate.  Hanukkah is a remembrance of faith, renewal, and restoration.  Kwanzaa is all about remembrance and celebration.  And Christian Christmas (about the baby Jesus, not Santa Claus) is about a brightness of hope and faith confirmed.  (Ok, Santa does some of that too.)

Christmas and lights, they’re as inseparable as peanut butter and jelly, turkey and Thanksgiving, or Easter and decorated eggs.  Lights are a powerful symbol to religions, individuals, and daily living.  Even as regular old daily objects, lights are special, necessary, and almost impossible to live without.  Maybe that’s why they’re even more effective as symbols. 



Lights help fear go away by illuminating the way. A star on the top of a tree doesn’t just represent the star of Bethlehem that showed the way to the Christ child, it is also a beacon that calls out and gathers in family to share and bask in its glow.  Colored lights twinkling are like looking up at the night sky while wishing, and a bright silvery moon is perfect for dreaming.  Any light in a dark or unfamiliar place gives hope.  As the sun comes up each morning and we feel its warmth we feel renewed and restored.  Lights are cheerful, joyful, bright, and gay.  They warm your thoughts and prepare the best ways.

Time for a Christmas holiday challenge…

Go out.  Look at the lights.  Feel the holiday vibe.  Enjoy everyone’s joy and share in all the best traditions (especially the foods!).  Maybe you’ll even decide to add a few new traditions to your own.  Most of all suck up all of the joy and the hope.  Recharge and renew yourself with peace, love, best wishes, and goodwill to and from all mankind.  Follow the festive holiday lights into your own bright new year.  And as always, our entire crew here at Genius Solutions wishes you and yours all the best this holiday season and for the New Year.