Even in the darkness

John 12: 24 (NRSVA)
24 Very truly, I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a single grain; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.
In the darkness we have known
we give thanks for gifts of light
In a season that held great loss we give thanks
for relationships strengthened
for love borne out in myriad ways that made a difference
For all the signs of God in those we encountered
those who held out faith when our own wavered
and those for whom we were enabled to be companions on the way
We give thanks for the rediscovery
of gifts we had laid aside
forgotten in their familiarity
that became precious once more
as they became harder to reach and all the more longed for
And in our thanksgiving
we embrace the wisdom revealed
that, hopefully we won’t let go so easily
as we forge a new future
diminished by loss
yet strengthened by shared experience
that reminds us
that love is stronger than death
and light penetrates darkness
and that there is no place
that takes us beyond God’s reach.
May our reflection
continue to enable insight
changing the way we embrace the future
in the knowledge that we are held
always in the love and light of God
and that, in every darkness, God is at work.
Lent Prompt
What practices in church life have to die in order to let new things flourish?
What are people saying?
I remember Luke and the Son Prodige It was die and is come bak
As Spring comes into view and new life bursts open all around us, my spirit is built up also. There is life after death and every new bulb that blooms reminds me of Jesus’ words on the matter.
I want to say something!