BLUE  CANDLE ADVENTURES

JL

          

           The blue candle was a gift from one of my special education students.  The little boy was in my class for three years and the year he would graduate from 5th grade was the year I would retire.  Starting in September the little boy had told me, ‘This year I’m going to buy you a present’,  and no matter how many times I told him that I preferred handmade gifts or extra help at school, he repeated it like a mantra.  I had watched his family struggle to obtain basic necessities over the years, met with his mom who walked to every meeting regardless of the weather.  I’d seen the dad working around the motel where they lived, and I had tremendous respect for all of them.  Please, no presents.  But on the graduation day, one of my last in the classroom, with gleeful eyes he presented me with this lovely heart shaped blue candle.  Such generosity of spirit, such moments of joy, such confidence, it provided a perfect inspiration for this new phase of my life and a wonderful symbol for our new business.  I know if ever I start to  worry about financial matters or feel fear about the future, I need only light the blue candle and remember what prosperity and happiness and abundance looked like in that little boy’s eyes.

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