Good morning…
This harsh winter has been the perfect season for us to be reading Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times by Katherine May.
On page 68, Wintering “…offers us a cyclical metaphor for life, one in which the energies of spring arrive again and again, nurtured by the deep retreat of winter. We are no longer accustomed to thinking in this way. Instead we are in the habit of imagining our lives to be linear, a long march from birth to death in which we mass our powers, only to surrender them again, all the while losing our youthful beauty. This is a brutal untruth. Life meanders like a path through the woods. We have seasons when we flourish and seasons when the leaves fall from us, revealing our bare bones. Given time, they grow again.”
Life is not a linear,
long march from birth to death,
with all beauty lost.
No.
This a brutal untruth.
In truth, life meanders like a path through the woods. We say “Yes” to all the seasons. Flourishing. Shedding. Revealing. Growing. Again and again and again.
We whisper to God, day after day, “Your word is a lamp for my steps; it lights the path before me” (Psalm 119:105, VOICE).
…Sue…
