Winter of my…Discontent?
Ah, the wisdom of Celestial Seasonings. This morning a quote from the tea box caught my eye and has arrested my attention:
“Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius” – Pietro Aretino
It caused me to wonder if God’s hand isn’t at work in the weather to feed the human soul. What if the blinding blanket of snow or the thick curtain of intense rain that marks the seasons in most of the world was an invitation to Life within? Maybe what I find boring (everything is just white) or smothering (I feel trapped by all this snow), is nature’s way of simplifying the stimuli and affording me an opportunity to draw interiorly , to listen in silence to Wisdom. Benedict XVI said it this way, “Only in silence can the word of God find a home in us, as it did in Mary, woman of the word and, inseparably, woman of silence.”
I have a renewed interest in what winter may bring within by removing the distractions without.
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