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Spiritual Seasons
Everything you need to know about life--about the mysteries of life, about
the secret to life--can be learned in a garden, if you pay attention.
For those of us hostage to the urban landscape, who pay little attention
to the seasons, who rely upon the weather channel or weather.com to forecast
the weather for us, those of us who proceed from one appointment to the
next oblivious to our environment, oblivious to the turning of seasons,
oblivious to the colors of plants--for us the church's recognition of
the 40 days of Lent becomes a reminder that we cannot experience the Easter
tide of resurrection and renewal until we first go through a period of
disequilibrium, of dying, of shedding, of letting go, of winter. You cannot
experience spring until you have first experienced winter. You cannot
experience Easter, Resurrection Sunday, until you first experience Lent.
--from "Lessons Learned in a Garden" by the Rev. Dr. Renita J. Weems
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