Dear friends,
Spring is all about new beginnings. Life reappears as the bleakness of winter gives way to the eruption of green. What was underneath the hard, cold ground peeks its head out and suddenly there are Tulips and daffodils. Spring is not a metaphor, it is a statement of Truth. Life is forever becoming itself in a cycle of revealed diversity that never ends.
The Christian holiday of Easter was originally a festival to celebrate the Spring Equinox and the arrival of new life. Humans have an intuitive sense that we are not unlike the Tulips; that we are recycled, as it were, and are forever becoming a new version of Love/Intelligence. The account of the death and resurrection of Jesus is one way of speaking about this grand realization; we do not die; we resume living in a newly revealed form. That is not folklore. It is real. We are not hoping it is true, we know it is true.
Here we are, as a global family, having the very real experience of gestation. That may seem like an exaggeration but when have we all been involved in a shared experience of this magnitude? We are not at war; there is no famine; we are simply cocooned, somewhat forced into introspection. Yes, many are suffering more than the rest of us, but those folks are also on the receiving end of our care and concern. The best of us is being expressed through the distribution of food and supplies. We are having the first hand experience of just how much we are our brothers keeper. This does not negate the best aspects of capitalism, rather it tempers the greed inherent in it. We can have a both/and society if compassion and love are allowed to be the drivers.
Prosperity never made anyone a money grabbing crook. That is the result of a belief in Lack as a fundamental truth. Knowing that we are part of an ever renewing system ought to elicit the relaxation response in us. As long as we participate in the giving and receiving cycle with gratitude and generosity, we will be more aware of how alive we really are and shall always be.
Stay tuned in,
Carol Carnes www.carol-carnes.com
