Some things I have learned #25

Subtitle: Or, at the least, I think I believe

Sub-subtitle: Or, at the most, I believe I know

Note: On the occasion of the annual vernal equinox, this year, commencing at 5.37 a.m. EST on March 20, 2021, signaling the advent of the spring season.

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Spring. That season of the year – as it follows winter, which, despite climate change and global warming, still, in many lands, is a time of barren cold – associated with renewal.

As in earth’s cycles, so in human living. Resurrection, though not inevitable, is always a successor to a crucifixion-moment; any experience of the pain of loss. Thus, a rebirth, it may be said (though, at times, terrible is this truth) requires a death of one sort or another.

Yet as long as there is breath, however feeble, and strength, however frail, hope – that capacity to envision a reality beyond the shadows of one’s suffering – survives.

And where hope lives, so, too, the possibility of spring.

© 2021 PRA