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Today's Meditation presents Carrie Newcomer singing her song "The Beautiful Not Yet" and then reflecting on Spring Coming and The Beautiful Not Yet already happening in our midst.
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MEDITATION 294: "The Beautiful Not Yet" Carrie Newcomer and Chloe Grace--then Carrie's Reflections on Spring Coming and the Beautiful Not Yet.
https://youtu.be/aceVe58mU0M
Hi Friends, Here in the Beautiful Not Yet....This month we pass from the deepest part of the winter into the promise of spring. We can't see it yet, but just beneath the snow the seeds are beginning to yawn and stretch from their long sleep, the sap is already running in the trees, coming up from the roots, beginning the process of creating new buds and leaves. Birds are readying themselves or have already begun their migratory journey north. Now is when we ache for what we cannot yet see, warm light, the first wildflowers, to hug freely, to travel for love and music.....the end of this terrible pandemic. I wrote a song called The Beautiful Not Yet with my friend Chloe Grace a few years ago. It was March and I'd been walking around in the Indiana woods. I could feel what was coming, the promise of something I could not yet see, and the beauty that was happening even then - right there in the beautiful not yet. These days we are living in hope, and yet I remind myself that my life doesn't start when the spring comes, when the garden is blooming, when this or that happens. Life is happening now, sometimes quietly and sometimes urgently. It is happening in the snow and the bare branches that sway so elegantly in the wind. It is happening in a new song or the rereading of a beloved poem. It is happening now, even now in the beautiful not yet. - Carrie