This little light of mine

Lookee what I got for Christmas!  A colonial style mold for taper candles.  For awhile now, I've been collecting beeswax from our hives, and this is just the type of mold I had hoped for.  Now let me start by saying I usually find making things to be relaxing.  BUT NOT THIS TIME!!  

Threading the wick through this thing was a -----.  Well, let's just say it could provoke undignified language, (which would certainly dim this little light of mine *ahem*). 

   

Especially when you have to KEEP re-threading it until you get it right. After I few deep breaths, I realized that candle making has the ability to evoke the fruit of patience. 

I learned something cool in the process:  the difference between fruit and candles is that you cannot make fruit, though you can bear it...

...but you can make candles - if you can bear it.

Four of the candles popped out easily.  Two are still stuck.  There's an enlightening lesson in there somewhere.

Patience.

Even though the making is not easy, it is worth it.  No turning back.  This little light of mine, la la la....