Showing posts with label seasons. Show all posts
Showing posts with label seasons. Show all posts
Sunday, September 22, 2013
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
A Time for Everything
White plum blossoms
return to the withered trees ---
moonlit night
Buson
The progression of seasons in nature are necessary illustrations of relationships. What I mean is, is that the concrete changes show cause and effect. People also change and we frequently use the phrases like "during this season of my life." Ecclesiastes 3 (Old Testament of Judaic Christian Bible) expresses that there is a time for everything. So, there is a time for the tree to wither so that there can be a time for blossoms to return. A rhythm exists. An understanding of cause and effect is expressed. Human relationships are like this. Human relationships are challenged to be like this plum tree --- to find energy to produce goodness after difficult events and changes in the environment. This goodness, though, may be difficult to see.
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