Lighting up when away
November 24th, 2006I am sometimes away on Friday nights and have lit up in all sorts of strange locations from Fiji (in our room) to London—where I had to dash to the hardware store to buy candles.
Last week was one of the strangest. I found myself in a non-smoking hotel in San Francisco so could not ask for matches. I went to Walgreens for water—-and forgot to ask for matches. It was candle lighting time as I headed back to the hotel and I was trying to figure out what to do……then I remembered that the Grace Anglican Cathedral across the way from the hotel and an interfaith chapel with candles, NO crosses etc, and pieces of the AIDS quilt (I am a quilter). So I went over there. The main part of the cathedral was closed for a concert. Luckily no one stopped me en route to the interfaith chapel as it is near the entrance. I lit two candles, said my blessing, meditated, admired the quilt panels and what had gone into them, calmed down and left.
