Lent 26 - little deaths, little resurrections

“The world...is full of resurrections... Every night that folds us up in darkness is a death; and those of you that have been out early, and have seen the first of the dawn, will know it - the day rises out of the night like a being that has burst its tomb and escaped into life.”

― George MacDonald, The Seaboard Parish

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dying

rising

dying again

and rising again

life is full of little deaths

each day we fold into darkness

and we fold into sleep

our day gone

it is finished

that day which itself is full

of little deaths

those moments when

it is finished

when we have failed

or simply come to the end

of a relationship

a task

to the end of vision

or energy

there are many moments that feel

like death

like darkness

but never is the end the end

the are indeed moments of completeness

and in that completeness

we find joy, sometimes

and darkness, sometimes

but always each death

each moment of completeness is merely

a moment of transition

to what is next

and new

each failure bursts into new beginnings

each night into the birth of a new day

each death

into life

bring it on

O Creator God

whatever is next!