"Faith is not being sure where you're going but going anyway." Frederick Beuchner
The year is ending, Christmas is only days away, and soon it too, will fold into the past. In our part of the world, much of the Real World has gone to sleep. Outside this is a time of endings in preparation for the arrival of Spring. Even though we are now able to live our lives outside the realm of this natural cycle, we still deep inside resonate to it. From this natural quickening in us, our knowledge that endings bring beginnings, that darkness provides for light, emerges the gift of faith.
We will all have things that have happened to us this year, that we wished had not. Sometimes in an ending, whatever it may be, it is easy to be frightened by the space left in our lives by what is over. We forget that nothing stays the same, and everything about life is always ending. That is the blessing. Perhaps when we are scared and worried about what comes next, we can think about what is happening right now outside. Deep down in the ground, life is pulsing in the dark. The world is moving on in its sacred rhythm and carrying us along with it. We don't know just what will emerge when the light returns, but the Real World is showing us we can have faith that it will come.
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