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Wednesday, March 23, 2016

Dying and Living

In the human body and Spirit there is always a wintertime, when something is dying and falling away.  There is always simultaneously a springtime, when something new is coming to life.
                                                                        John O’Donohue, Eternal Echoes, p. 162
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day comes
the sun peeking joyfully above the mountains
flaming orange and red

the day goes, light dropping into darkness

fall, winter, spring, summer
the seasons too come and go

life is constant change
a coming and a going
a living and a dying

and truly
the old must die for the new to arrive
there is no sunrise, without sunset
there is no change, no new thing,
unless the old ways die,

the seed goes into the dark cold earth
and must die there
before warmth and water
bring it to life again

you cannot have a resurrection without a death

there is much in our lives which must die
for us to change
to move forward to newness

old fears
old values, prejudices, stereotypes must go
old failures must be discarded

only then can our hearts and souls be free
only then can the winter of our discontent
our frozenness
give way to spring
to newness

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