There is a cycle of death in autumn, waiting in winter and then spring and summer every year. Spring is exciting because it is the very beginning of what we have hoped for during the seemingly barren, cold and dark days of winter.
It happens every year; there is a natural order. There is purpose in it.
· Are you fighting what is unfolding in your life?
· How can your approach be altered to help you get the most from each stage of this pattern?
Easter Saturday was a bit like winter. Those close to Jesus thought it was the end. They were confused; seemingly forgetting what he had said to prepare them. Unlike us, they did not realise that Easter Sunday was on its way.
Hope springs eternal in the human breast – so said Alexander Pope. Now we know that the death of Good Friday, and the living with that fact on Easter Saturday, was going to precede the ecstatic joy of Easter Sunday. Resurrection. A whole new start; quite different from what had been expected.
· Are you living in Easter Saturday or perhaps still experiencing the death of Good Friday?
Spring always follows winter. Hang in there and allow yourself to feel your way through the death and waiting, knowing that joy WILL come.