I secretly like the silent glow of winter, but I lean towards Spring myself-I’m a resurrection guy. Still as Robert Alter said, to know how to rest in what is most quiet, brings rest around you. Winter certainly teaches at least that Peace.
Or as Alter translated David, “Only in God is my being quiet.” (Ps 62:1) Winter knows that much. Only in Winter do i recall my name, as Rilke put it.
And perhaps rest, sabbath or quietness is one of the highest needs we have now. To know that we are known, in the way the live oaks know and receive and even host snow-have we gotten there with Love?
To let it rest on us-His Love, and it’s, light weighted, as named, nuanced, framed and known forever already named poems, us….Yet, it’s good to know snow can land on your limbs, but even better to rest in that knowing of being particularly named and known. That 200 year, live oak seemed to get the sermon today….
At least, that was my winter meditation today!
Let’s live alight friends! And let the right things settle on our limbs this year.