[Oe List ...] Salmon: On "The Truth"

[Herman Greene]

I like this David

 

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From: oe-bounces at wedgeblade.net [mailto:oe-bounces at wedgeblade.net] On Behalf
Of David & Lin Zahrt
Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 11:08 PM
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Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Salmon: On "The Truth"

 

LITURGICAL DRAMA -- the Season is the Reason 

Do the Seasons follow the Liturgical Year? Or was the Liturgical Year
invented to reflect the Seasons?

In the time of the darkest hour, the Winter Solstice, a ray of hope is born.
It is so nicely symbolized with a Virgin Birth. In the darkest hour, as if
by miracle, Hope was born. With the arrival of Hope came new Light. The days
lengthened.

With the crucifixion Hope was slain. Still there was a Resurrection of Hope;
the Equinox, when day and night were equal length, and daylight continued on
its way to overtaking darkness.

How many times have you experienced yourself surrounded by the depth of
darkness-a darkness that seems to have no end? How relieving it is to know
that light will not be overcome. It is relentless in overcoming the dark.

How many times have you experienced the death of everything positive and
sustaining in life? What an enormous joy to realize that Death prefigures
Resurrection-that which is past gives way to a brand new, unknown, and
anxiety-filled future. 

PS. The Pasque Flower, a native prairie crocus, is named after Easter
(pasque in French refers to Easter). It turns out that the Pasque Flower
waits for Mother Earth to create the Equinox so it has permission to appear.
It comes as sheer flower--new life emerging, surrounded by death. There is
no leaf until after the bloom has disintegrated. Once the leaves have
collected enough sunshine to develop mature seed the plant recedes into the
prairie.

However, it's comical to confine this phenomena to Easter. There have been
several times in the past 4-9 years that we have had very cool and rainy
Augusts, followed by a cool, cloudy, September. Guess what the Pasque Flower
did? Since it perceived a cool, moist climate leading up to the Equinox (in
this case the Autumnal Equinox) it once again came into bloom. And it was
only supposed to be an Easter flower! It turns out that the Pasque flower
responded to the Seasons rather than the Liturgical Year!

David

 

PS. If Jesus had been born in Australia Christmas would have been designed
to happen in June!

 

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