Let Your Life Speak

Today I finished a book I have been slowly reading over the past couple months, Let Your Life Speak by Parker J. Palmer. It is an interesting book that provoked some great times of thought. The last chapter provides the analogy of our lives being similar to seasons. I have always enjoyed this idea. He writes way better than I do so here are some of his thoughts that I appreciated:

"The notion that our lives are like the eternal cycle of the seasons does not deny the struggle or the joy, the loss or the gain, the darkness or the light, but encourages us to embrace it all - and to find in all of it opportunity for growth"


"Transformation is difficult, so it is good to know that there is comfort as well as challenge in the metaphor of life as a cycle of seasons."


"Summer is the season when all the promissory notes of autumn and winter and spring come due, and each year the debts are repaid with compound interest. In summer, it is hard to remember that we had ever doubted the natural process, had ever ceded death the last word, had ever lost faith in the powers of new life. Summer is a reminder that our faith is not nearly as strong as the things we profess to have faith in - a reminder that for this single season, at least, we might cease our anxious machinations* and give ourselves to the abiding and abundant grace of our common life."

*mach·i·na·tion: a scheming or crafty action or artful design intended to accomplish some usually evil end. (I learned a new word today and now maybe you will too)

I hope you are appreciating the life you have to live each day and the season it brings, whether autumn, winter, spring, or summer.

Any recommendations on what I should read next?