Resurface to shine
Resurface to shine
A bud uses all its strength to stay alive. It was once a seed suffocated in the dark silence of the earth. Its potential strength, in escalating movement, caused it to sprout before the gleam of light, resurfacing as a plant and becoming so useful that it even gives shade, food or its body to various instruments.
We, humans, used to be seeds as well, and lived in a dark and not so silent womb, from where we bloomed, resurfacing with the possibility of becoming useful beings in evolution.
We are surrounded by resurfacing at every moment. Even when death becomes a companion. Except that “death” can originate from a wrongly expressed word, from an avoided gaze, from the hand which chooses to bomb instead of donate. For those blows there is also resurfacing, due to the potential contained in the core of life.
Let’s observe the cycles of nature that remind us of rebirth, each one in its moment: in summer, the sun shines on leaves, soil and skin; in the fall, the same sun eases, preparing all for new sensations. Then the cold comes shortening the days and turning them gray. This moment of seclusion precedes the opening of a new cycle of creation, spring, which restarts beautiful buds and flowers
But we are more, we are beings moved by reason and by emotion.
For the cycles of the planet’s evolution there is the Christic example of the resurrection, the passage, the pesach. Easter brings from the scriptures the experience that, even though being dust (and to it our body will return), throughout existence it is possible to be reborn, transcend and change. In a natural way, even if blunted by selfishness, we receive the invitation to resurrect in search of the Light so that, in a continuous journey, we are also able to shine.
