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Article: Practicing incarnation.(Faith matters)(spring and the religious concept of incarnation)
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- The Christian Century
- Article date:
- April 5, 2005
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WHOEVER TIED EASTER to the spring equinox made a very good decision. For those who are so inclined, there is no better time for feeling alive, as the whole world wakes from winter and makes new birth look easy. Clumps of green grass erupt from the flat tan lawn. Bluebirds appear on the clothesline. There are so many redbuds in the woods that a pink haze seems to waft through the trees. I may have blood instead of sap, but something inside me rises once the earth rounds the winter bend and heads back in the sun's direction.
This time of year, my body knows things that my mind has not yet grasped, so that planting potatoes or putting fresh hay in the hens' nests ...
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