Greetings Dear Reader,
“Don't your feet get
cold in the winter time?
The sky won't snow and the sun won't shine
It's hard to tell the night time from the day.”
The sky won't snow and the sun won't shine
It's hard to tell the night time from the day.”
I used to have a very dim view of my elders when they would
say that they world is different than when they were young. When they would bemoan that changes which they
saw as negative and harmful, I would not see it the same way. I would not see it and would think little of
it.
I am now one of those.
I have discussed with some family and friends the changes I see in the
world. Paramount in those conversations is
my thinking that there has been a recent significant change in the world. It seems like the darkness in the world grows
stronger and patches of real light are fewer.
Hearts are harder in so many places.
In many cultures, it is necessary for one to prepare for
winter in order to survive. Resources
must be gathered and stored. Sources of
heat and shelter must be secured. Winter
comes and it does not care if we are prepared or not. The place I lived last winter experienced severe
bitter cold last week. People died.
When I am alone, I ponder the winter of life. What becomes vital is that I avoid the things
that make a heart hard and a mind narrow. This becomes a constant choice to discipline
my mind so that I keep my heart. There
are things one must do and things one must not do to avoid becoming hard-hearted
in winter.
I must not ponder what I do not have. It cannot be changed. I can work toward what I wish for and
desire. I can manage what I desire to
see that it aligns with what is good. I
have to guard against bitterness. To do
this, I must forgive everyone, every wrong, in every area as quickly and purely
as possible. I have to focus on faith
and following in order to guard against finding anger and hardness as my companions.
The things that I must do are simple and complex all at
once. I must love everyone as they are,
where they are no matter what the cost.
I have to realize that my resources to love are not limited. The things that would scale and eventually
harden my heart must be combatted by investing in things that soften it anew.
A friend recently posted a graphic that sums it up for
me. It was the image of a pie and the image
of the numeric concept of Pi. It quite
simply said, “Love is not a pie, you hand out your eight pieces and you are
done. Love is Pi, irrational and never
ending.” The way to avoid a hard heart
or to recover from one is to embrace this vital truth. The great law is to love God and to love each
other.
Love is the thing that can chip away the stone from a heart. If we work at loving others it is difficult
to resist being loved. Winter is coming Dear
Reader. If if you are young and in the spring
time of your life you must still prepare for winter. It is never too soon to being to love
always. It is never the wrong time to allow
love into your heart and keep it safe from hardness.
I felt the wind change and know that winter is near. I refuse to let the cold make my heart stiff
and less responsive to love. The cold
may sting but I will carry inside me the love of Christ and make it free to
anyone who wishes it. I invite you to join
me by this fire Dear Reader.
Wishing you joy in the journey,
Aramis Thorn
Mat 13:52 So Jesus said to them, "That is why every
writer who has become a disciple of Christ’s rule of the universe is like a
home owner. He liberally hands out new and old things from his great treasure
store.”
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