Archived Messages
Winter Reflection
January 07, 2009
Have you ever noticed the beauty of the stark, barren winter trees etched against the brilliance of the rising or the setting sun?
Winter’s beauty is far different from the delicacy of spring, the fecundity of summer, the brilliance of autumn. Colors are muted. Trees and plants are brittle, dry, skeletal. Not much reminds us of the fruitfulness of the earth in its other seasons.
But deep beneath the surface, safe from the bitter cold, life waits, preparing to burgeon forth once more when the warmth beckons.
The earth needs this time of stillness.
Take time to be still this season, too—to appreciate the loveliness of the spare trees, the sleeping fields, the brilliant sparkle of snow and ice in the sunlight, the stars in the clear, cold night sky.
Like the earth, we too need times of stillness to reconnect with the life that flows deep within us all.