Spring Delights

illustrated noticings and late easter thoughts on goodbye-ing and hello-ing

Hi friends!

Sorry to miss last week’s newsletter — I was traveling the whole day of Easter and didn’t have a chance to write. So here we are, together, today, thinking about Easter.

I’ve realized the Life/Death/Life cycle has been on my mind a lot these past few years. Spiritually, and metaphorically, I’ve had to let things die and be reborn in my life. Physically, as a woman, my body is perpetually in this cycle — growing and releasing, creating and dying.

As I’ve seen the Earth do the same this winter to spring, it’s reminded me of the concept of all things testifying of Christ. Just as the seasons and plants go through life-death-life, it can be a way to point to the life-death-life of Jesus. But this year I started to wonder, what if Jesus is the one testifying of Life?

If we expand our view of God just a bit — open up the shutters a smidge — to a God that embodies more than a male flesh-and-bones form, we can feel and see God as the thick collective spirit that connects us all together. Life itself. And Jesus, miraculously, mysteriously, completely embodied Life — including the death and the rebirth. What a beautiful reminder of what can happen in our lives when we put God and Life first — connection, newness, vitality, wholeness.

These spring delights above have been little delights I have noticed these past few weeks as the earth begins to yawn awake in the Northern Hemisphere. The blossoms, my new baby cousins, empty tombs, picnics on the grass, it is all pointing us to Life, to the constant hello-ing and goodbye-ing and hello-ing again.

May you say goodbye and say hello,