Dear All of Us,
Hi there from here!
If you please,
two questions:
- what is your favorite season
of the year?
- how do you like to season
food and drink?
Seasoning X2
Is your morning coffee or tea
solo or sweetened?
How about at dinner
with all the fine foods
that fill our plates
and tummies?
Seasoning with
salt and pepper?
How about horseradish,
even chilly power?
Ever kick it up with
Tabasco Sauce?
Condiments condition.
Seasonings flavor.
They make a
decided difference.
Same so for the
seasons of the year.
Each quite different,
making quit a difference -
indoors, outdoors,
surfing or shoveling.
They condition, tone,
flavor how daily life
is served up.
Same such is such
in our spiritual lives.
We go through
four distinct seasons
and at the same time
we experience contrasting
soul seasonings.
Sometimes there is overlap.
All this makes for
many more than
Heinz's 57 varieties
of flavoring in our
spiritual seasons
and seasonings.
SOUL SEASONS
Soul Spring
A warming brightness,
budding newness.
Sprung spirit free,
basking in euphoric promise.
Soul Summer
Heats up for a time
and the work
of growth and fecundity.
All in with spirit sweat -
weed, water, cultivate -
soul-grow-maturing.
Soul Autumn
Splendor and harvest,
A Sung Mass of Thanksgiving.
Mellow maturity,
landscape of kaleidoscopic
beauty and produce.
Soul Winter
Slow sabbatical
for soul as for soil.
Freezing insistence on
innerness of habitation,
stilled centeredness,
plain quiet of spirit,
death to what was and
germination for what will be.
SOUL SEASONINGS
Throughout these
soul seasons
there is a pantry full of
spiritual seasonings -
insight, aridity, grace,
inspiration, darkness,
expansion, deepening, sin,
chaos, confidence, consolation,
doubt, faith.
Such seasonings sure do
condition and flavor our
Soul Seasons
sweet to sour.
The seasons
we don't get to choose.
Some of the seasonings
we do get to choose.
Many to most we don't.
So important to both
understand and accept.
It's how things are
at this point with us.
It's also how things are
with others at
their this point.
These seasons and seasonings
condition not only
our individual lives
but also our shared living
and interactions with others.
That makes for quite a mix.
For example, I am in
the overlap of Soul Autumn
and Soul Winter,
the richness of long living,
the quiet of dying to that
and the geminating of next.
Some days are
peppered with pain,
others sweet with
peace and gratitude,
and most of the time
the flavor of the week
is simple, quiet waiting
in the is of now as it
prepares to hand off
to timeless forever.
Family and friends
are otherwise
and other how -
different seasons
and seasonings.
I need to be sensitive
to that and them.
I am blessed when
they soul such me.
Whatever the
context and conditioning,
in whatever season,
hot, cold, budding, fading,
tasting comfort or conflict,
and many bitter sweets
in-between, it comes to
simply, fully, appropriate to
season and seasoning,
loving God, neighbor and self
as we are, as they are,
with all we've got.
That makes for seasons
and seasonings of grace.
God Love to All,
John Frank
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THANKS
to so many who have shared
frankly speaking
with so many others and
WELCOME
to all new, occasional, regular
in our weekly sharings here.
We are from many lands and
we are experiencing varied
Soul Seasons and Seasonings.
A blessed mix.
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