Friday, October 18, 2013

Well, the dead has arisen!



Most people that know me really well, know that “The Color Purple” is one of my favorite movies.  One of my favorite lines from the movie is when Old Man Mister says to Sophia at the Easter dinner table “Well, the dead has arisen.”  If we look at the seasonal life cycle, we have the spring of infancy, the summer of youthfulness and early adulthood, the autumnal joys of middle adulthood and finely having adopted a bit more common sense and wisdom, followed by the sometimes bleak winter of late life and maybe even loneliness.

My absolute favorite season is fall.  I love it so much, I have a Pinterest board “Autumn, the new Spring.”  That sounds so oxymoronic.  How can the season which precedes the season of barren trees, lengthy cold nights and extremely limited day light hours be the new spring?  Albert Camus reminds us that “Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”   Even in the midst of this climate and life change, we are called to enjoy the beauty of entering a new season of life, a new adventure and new possibilities with God.  For every fall, there is a winter.  Just as there is a morning after every night.  We are reminded in the Psalms that "Weeping may endure for a night, but joy will come in the morning the morning light."  

Autumn sets the stage for seasons of gratitude, love and charity.  As we enter this autumnal journey of 2013, think about the beautiful things that you have to be thankful for.   Think about those things that may have latched on to you during the spring and summer, and let them go.  Let go and let God move through you as his abundant graces harvested within you spring forth into a new dimension.  You may think that you are on the brink of death, or that you have no hope.  Beloved “the dead has arisen.”  Rise, there is work to do.  We have risen into a new level of glory and transformation for such a time as this.


Peace,                                                            
Karr

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