Good morning…
“I love, love, love this!” she wrote after yesterday’s post, Take Three Steps. “I tend to get a little glum in the fall. As the days grow shorter, the light changes, the energy of spring and summer fades, I feel a little sadness. I have been reading our Richard Rohr book, Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life, and following along with your daily blog. Both resources have helped me to reframe this ‘going down’ time as one necessary to produce and nurture the seeds for our next spring and summer.”
She continued: “This reader’s insight is such a great encouragement as it shows something that I can actively do during this time. Fall isn’t just something being done ‘to’ me. It’s a time when I can actively partner to clean my house in preparation for the coming of our Lord and the preparation of my soil to nurture and tend to the seeds scattered on my soil.”
She concluded: “Thank you for helping us tend our soil and do the ‘hidden’ work that matters so much in our journey to wholeness.”
“I love this insight, too,” I responded. “Our online community has watched deep, hidden wisdom form firmly into three steps, right before our open eyes. I admire the way God is leading us together, step by step by step, each day.”
As Richard Rohr says on page xviii: “The soul has many secrets. They are only revealed to those who want them, and are never completely forced upon us. One of the best-kept secrets, and yet one hidden in plain sight, is that the way up is the way down. Or, if you prefer, the way down is the way up. This pattern is obvious in all of nature.”
This image of planting a dead seed and raising a live plant is a mere sketch at best, but perhaps it will help in approaching the mystery of the resurrection body—but only if you keep in mind that when we’re raised, we’re raised for good, alive forever! The corpse that’s planted is no beauty, but when it’s raised, it’s glorious. Put in the ground weak, it comes up powerful. The seed sown is natural; the seed grown is supernatural—same seed, same body, but what a difference from when it goes down in physical mortality to when it is raised up in spiritual immortality! (1 Corinthians 15:42-44, MSG).
…Sue…
