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Something Good’s Around the Corner
Like spring to a tree that’s known a long winter
Before me there’s a leafless tree, shining bare in the late winter sun. The branches are long, backlit in sunlight. The tree is beautiful, yet I wonder if its life is fading, its leaves falling one by one, or if this is a beginning.
Does it know that spring is on the way, or does the winter cold feel like an end? We can’t ever know with certainty what’s around the corner. It may be more of the same. Winter may last long. But then, perhaps, spring. A new beginning.
It feels like I, too, am on the threshold, and I just have to continue. All of life, no matter who we are, is stumbling forth into the unknown. Every second passed is a step toward death, yet nearer to light, the illumination of what we couldn’t understand before.
If all of life was winter, what would we make of each cold day? The choice is ours to give up, give in to the uncertainty, or to dance in the rain.
The rain begins to softly fall. It feels cold yet rejuvenating, like spring. It doesn’t matter where I am — at home or on the road; lost, or in line at the supermarket. I’m home in this spirit and this soul.
Life is a practice of continually letting go.
