Turn, Turn, Turn: Everything in Season

The sun shone today. In it’s warmth I felt the change of the season. Spring is here. Yet I was in my way to a funeral. So were other people I knew. Several funerals. Another turn of season.

When I listened to the reading from Ecclesiastes I was also reminded about the song by the Byrds which uses as lyrics that Bible passage. “Turn! Turn! Turn!” How we sometimes need a reminder that life ebbs and flows. I feel that this particular way of expressing what life is all about helps me to remember the ending of a season too. Because we all have to die. The uncertainty is about when. In between birth and death I believe we have a chance to decide how we deal with the intervening changes of season. And how ready we become to the idea that loss is a natural part of living.

As a child I thought that I would live forever. Even when death started to make it’s presence felt there was some kind of ok-ness about it because the people who died were old. To a ten year old most people will seem old so I was no different. And I hadn’t quite grasped the idea that they never came back. As I grew older and death impinged on my life a bit more it still seemed somehow remote. After all I was too busy living life to the full to worry about when it might end. I was having my season in the sun. I think I was protected from unfortunate deaths. The loss of someone ‘before their time’. Mostly it was still the old people going.

Of course, now I’m in a very different season. I’m in the part of my life where the people I expected to last forever are going. And I’m taking a step closer to being one of them!

Perhaps it’s this vested interest that made me think about seasons today. About all of the different stages of my life. How much the words from Ecclesiastes make sense now. I have broken down and built up, wept and laughed, loved and hated. Wished to find peace amidst the time of war. Mourned even as I danced. So there is a time to get and a time to loose. At every funeral I have lost someone but the Spirit world has got a new Spirit. Everything is in it’s season.  I still have choices to make. Because for now my life continues here. My loved ones make choices in the Afterlife too. Together with them I am marking the turn and turn about of life.

I believe I will return to this life again. Because I am sure I have been here before. With each life I have lived I have watched the turning of the seasons. Survived the journey. And returned for a while to that place of infinite unconditional love. How then can I worry about the ebb and flow of life? I know it will be as it is meant to be. I will have experiences that bring all of the aspects of life into mine. And I will once again move through the seasons of my life. Saying goodbye is really only au revoir. Let the wheel spin and turn once more!

Day 469 of my blogging challenge.

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