Author: clfuu

Life—Easter improbably asserts—can come from death. This might seem like an absurd claim, if nature didn’t tell us exactly the same thing.

Where have you seen life arising from a place of death?

Sleep refreshes and renews us. But awakening can mean far more than getting out of bed in the morning. We awaken our senses, awaken our conscience, awaken to spiritual truths. Sometimes awakening involves metaphorical as well as physical stretching.

How are you stretching yourself these days?

“Life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself, it is infinitely beyond your or my obtuse theories about it.”
― Boris Pasternak

How have recent events upended your theories about life?

The most important phase of building isn’t building at all—it’s the unglamorous work of preparing a firm foundation. Without the mess of digging down to solid footings, the fanciest building is likely to crumble.

What unglamorous work are you doing to lay a firm foundation for what will come later?

The story of Passover includes not only the dramatic escape from slavery in Egypt, but also a really, really long time wandering in the desert before the Hebrew people finally reach the Promised Land. Liberation, it turns out, is not quick.

What helps you to find patience to continue on?