Don't be confused about God and winter and destruction. God isn't about keeping you from being hurt, or giving you what you want, or punishing people for doing the wrong things. Easter may still be about eliminating the fear of death. But God is certainly about volcanoes and floods and forest fires. Lightening strikes and dying stars. What happens after these tragedies? Everything.
Everything keeps happening and moving and growing. Plants push up through ashes. Beautiful canyons are carved out where millenia before there were great oceans. New planets form out of the combined molecules that comprise metals and dust kicked off by the spent star that used to be the center of a solar system. Those molecules that were once simple hydrogen.
There's no remorse for the loss of what came before - only the continual opportunity for new somethings to exist. God is about endless second chances.
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On the 27th of February, 2011, I noticed my tulips are coming up. I noticed lettuce - not known for being self-sowing - bursting to life in my garden. And again I am surprised by spring. Hopefully I earned it this year.
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