| Spring is coming, birds and flowers are (slowly) waking up from hibernation. It seems that we humans, too, are rejuvenated. Darkness and all the bundling up slowly fades and we adopt a more active, more social and more joyful mode of life. We walked through Lent and now our souls are lifted up into new flourishing. The natural and spiritual “parts” or our human project seem to walk hand in hand. This reminds me of many of the lessons I have learned during this spring at Stella Maris during the One Body in Christ – Youth Weekends. God created nature - or, in fact, the whole Universe (to give it a bit more grandeur), including us humans. |  Spring is coming. Really. |
Of course, these things go hand in hand, or they should, in order to retain balance and the harmony, happiness and wellbeing of humanity and the rest of the created world.
However, our culture and this society do seem to follow some other agenda these days. Life is 24/7, and moving about by foot or on skis, after a ball or among trees has given away to cars, shopping malls and gyms where people can watch their perfected selves in advertisements or next to them in the mirror at yoga class. We are invited to make unhappy comparisons between ourselves and the others that we might find better or worse, and so easily we are lured into feeling envy about the former and something between encouragement and pity about the latter.
Advertisements tell us to strive to be more beautiful and more successful and to keep more busy. In fact, 90% of the people I know respond to the question “How are you?” with “Busy”.
Advertisements tell us to strive to be more beautiful and more successful and to keep more busy. In fact, 90% of the people I know respond to the question “How are you?” with “Busy”.
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