Dearly Beloved,
Grace and Peace to you.
First day of autumn,
season of diminishment.
Trees open the pages
of their psalms of lament,
their long slow humility.
Leaves mutter loss over and over.
Veined and wrinkled hands
like mine
let go.
The ground is a resting place
of brown and yellow bits of things,
seedfall and leafscatter,
rustle of death.
In my sixties
my days narrow now,
a passage of shedding.
And yet— in Australia this very day
is a first day of spring,
the other side of this passage,
this dying a rising
into something new, unburdened,
and alive.
Deep Blessings,
Pastor Steve
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Steve Garnaas-Holmes
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