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