a new day swirling into life

a new day swirling into life

The caterpillar is generally seen as a kind of 'yucky' creature. However, if it is allowed to live and complete it's life cycle it will, when it is time, spin a cacoon, dissolve into a kind of ooze, and then the cells reconfigure to become a butterfuly. So too with parts of our self ... some parts can be caterpillars for decades until the time for the butterfly cycle arrives. It is our nature to cycle into more refined forms of beauty - we need only practice patience, courage and hope in order to keep moving forward in life. The quote below reminds me of this.
... and if only we arrange our life in accordance with the principle which tells us that we must always trust in the difficult, then what now appears to us as the most alien will become our most intimate and trusted experience. Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.



Rainer Maria Rilke































Sunday, April 4, 2010

rejoice

today we celebrate Easter ... the mystery of life appearing from what was thought dead and so I looked up the word celebrate: to mark with festivities. So, I looked up festivity: an occasion of rejoicing. May you be blessed with rejoicing in the mystery of new life ... may you have wondering eyes to see blessing where you thought there was nothing ... may you hear the mewing cries of newly born life in you heart ... may you have the courage of Mary Magdalene to announce God is alive and magic is afoot.
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