Loveworks!
The Rodan Foundation’s Publication for The Love Awakening
December 2025
The Love Awakening (TLA) is the service arm of The Rodan Foundation. The TLA offers self-empowerment tools and courses designed to help you awaken and reclaim your personal power through positive living. We live the power of love through volunteer efforts supporting the people and the environment in our local and extended communities.
Our mission is to assist humanity in awakening to the power of love. Our intention is to help others awaken to who they truly are and use that awakening for the greater good. Our vision is the collective awakening of humanity, bringing forth harmony and unity for all. Join us as we learn and grow in the ways of living love and loving life!
EMBRACE YOUR INNER SANTA THIS SEASON
As we embark on this particular holiday season, I wanted to write on a lighter note to offer a bit of cheer and inspiration. No one can dispute that the world is in an unsettled state. Even the most optimistic among us struggle to stay that way. With wars, a divided country, a barrage of negative news cycles, and calendars filled with the usual holiday busyness and seasonal commercial overload, how can we retain the optimism essential for our own well-being? We must stop and remember that the true spirit of the holidays is about relationships and connection with friends and family (even those who might see things differently from us). It is about lending a helping hand to those in our local and greater communities who are less fortunate than we.
To stay optimistic, we must focus on what is within our immediate control. By listening, sharing, and caring, we increase our own well-being quotient, not just for those whom we support. Optimism also springs from having faith that in the end, even in the darkest of days, the best in humankind will somehow prevail.
Reflections: When I was a little girl, this time of year was among my favorite and most magical memories: The Nutcracker, the Christmas lights, and, most of all, waking up on Christmas morning with presents under the tree. The “fact” that Santa Claus traveled the world and visited all children and still visited me and knew exactly what I wanted (after writing lots of letters, of course) made me feel special and unconditionally loved. Too, in that moment, I felt united with other children around the world, knowing Santa was visiting them and they shared my joy. Of course, little me did not know that everyone did not celebrate Christmas and that not all kids woke up to a sparkling tree filled with presents. I was under the spell of innocence.
Today, although Santa Claus may have fallen out of favor among certain folks in recent years, he has become pretty much a secular icon available to many faiths. Unfortunately, Santa became over-commercialized. This holiday season, let’s go back to a slower time and reflect upon Santa’s true essence and how we might channel that magical spark in ourselves, so, perhaps, we can become a Santa for others this year.
The True Spirit of Santa
What was the myth of Santa Claus really about? Let’s break it down:
➥ Unconditional love: He was there for all the children (even if, in reality, he was not) and recognized the unique needs and wishes of each one.
➥ Magic: Honestly, how else could a human or even a superhuman fly all over the world in a sleigh with a bunch of reindeer and deliver presents to all the children of the world within 24 hours? Talk about a high achiever!
➥ Faith: He encouraged us to believe and trust in the unseen: he would come as sure as the sun would rise if …
➥ Goodness: We had to be good, or Santa would not come. Somehow, he knew if this was true. He helped us develop a conscience and take responsibility for our behavior. And, if we did not, he had his spies like the Elf on the Shelf—which parents embraced as a blessing.
➥ Joy and laughter: He knew how to belly laugh with that big “ho, ho, ho!” He was quite a jolly fellow. We could all take a lesson here. According to the Mayo Clinic, “laughter positively stimulates many organs, activates and relieves stress, soothes tension, and improves your immune system.”
➥ Listening, patience, and kindness: He listened patiently to the hopes and wishes of all the children he met.
This holiday season, channel your inner Santa for someone. Be inspired to add your much-needed magic and light to this world by contributing the “love and generosity and devotion that abound that give life its highest beauty and joy.” L. Graham, hauteliving.comsf.com
The "I Love Me" MeditationTM
The "I Love Me" Meditation is a simple and profound heart-centered practice of generating your personal frequency of love. It will teach you how to activate your natural capacity to generate and experience love through conscious awareness and conscious choice. This practice helps us to awaken. It encourages personal empower-ment, greater self-esteem and self-discovery as we learn practical means of replacing fear and negative frequency with the most powerful force in the universe: Love!
The “I Love Me” meditation series and the “Embrace of Acceptance” series are available on the free Insight Timer App. To listen, download the app or visit https://insig.ht/jErOcnXnjub
Upcoming Service Activities and Volunteer Events
DECEMBER SING & SHARE
Sunday, December 14th: 1:30 to 2:30 p.m.
Burlingame Senior Living 250 Myrtle Road, Burlingame
Join with us as we delight and inspire the elders of our community with lively company, silly joke time, and a fun, oldies-but-goodies sing-along with musical accompaniment. Don't sing well? Don't worry! All you need is a heart full of goodness and a smile. Please come live your love with us! Adults and children of all ages are welcome.
The Embrace of LoveTM
The Embrace of LoveTM is a guided meditation series which uses profound philosophy and gentle guidance to deepen your healing relationship with yourself as you are connected with the empowering presence of acceptance. Listen to a free recording on The Love Awakening's website and discover more about our organization and activities: theloveawakening.org
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HOPE FOR THE FUTURE
After all the emotional intensity in recent weeks we may now feel strangely detached as we begin to see ourselves, our lives and our world through new eyes. Deep realizations have surfaced giving us insight into the greater work we are doing to heal our deepest wounds. As the healing continues to unfold we shift from who we were to who we are becoming. With this shift new insights, possibilities and opportunities will present themselves giving us hope for the future. With this hope a stronger trust in the timing and cycles of life emerges.
There is light in the dark and as this light expands it opens you up to new horizons. Within this opening you are being urged to move beyond your comfort zones and embrace a new experience of life. You have outgrown your current experience and must now explore what lies beyond what you have always known. Bear witness to what is unfolding for you. Much love Kate
Kate Ann Spreckley 2025