“For Everything there is a Season.” (Ecclesiastes 3:1 - The Bible) Depending on where we live, the four seasons impact our lives to a greater or lesser extent. People living in the far north of Europe, for example, experience, every year, months of uninterrupted darkness - and therefore, also months of uninterrupted sunlight. Some of us feel the rhythm of the seasons very strongly - the ebbing and flowing as leaf buds form and burst, daylight stretches out and then shrinks back, as the once-young leaves change color and curl and tumble and fall. Wherever we are on Earth, the Seasons impact our lives to some degree. There is, quite literally, a time to sow and a time to reap, times of rain and times of drought. The book of Ecclesiastes, quoted above, doesn’t only talk about these very physical, literal, geographical seasons though. It goes on: “ a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, ...
Women's Spiritual Poetry