Love Lights

I love to look at holiday light displays.  Thanks to my amazing good fortune of landing an office next to a healing garden, I see beauty outside of my window all year long.  At this time of year, however, the garden glows with thousands of lights, mainly in royal blue and white.  The entire garden is awash in beautiful, little lights, including the three love light trees that are lit with bulbs that have been sponsored by people from the community to honor and remember loved ones.  Nearly any holiday light display pales for me in comparison to what I get to see outside of my window every early morning and late afternoon for weeks to come.  The lights will officially turn on this evening as part of the St. Clare Hospital Auxiliary's Festival of Love & Light, a meaningful time for anyone, but especially for those who are looking for a safe place in which to shed some tears when remembering someone they love.  As I look out onto the healing garden in weeks to come, I will pray for all of the people who are remembered with a light in the garden.  Lights of love burn forever in our hearts.