Stories Collected While Living in France

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The Cycle of Love and Life Endures

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Blue skies, budding trees, flowers blooming, birds singing, welcome spring! The revival of nature is a gentle reminder that I, too, can shed my old skin and rejuvenate myself. 
The cycle of life, nature’s song, and the signs it gives us to believe in.

The constant call to embrace the sacred dawn.

A leaf falls, nourishing the soil, and a seed blossoming into new life is a sacred occurrence that symbolizes the unending cycle of love and vitality. This perpetual process of renewal is a reminder of the sanctity of life and the interconnectedness of all living beings.

I see that we are the falling leaf and the blooming seed it reminds me of the possibility of growth and transformation, and the cycle of life continues unabated. Through this constant renewal, the beauty and resilience of the natural world, we are challenged to hold its invisible hand and live in unison.

 

 

I am a tiny set of cells; I came 

pushing through the dirt, nourished by rain

bathed in sunlight.   

From the first breath of morning light
to the final one, let go, and life's journey unfolds.

To dance in its rhythm without regret or fear.

 

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7 responses to “The Cycle of Love and Life Endures”

  1. Judy Busch

    Oh Corey – beautifully said.

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  2. marilyn

    That last line to dance is so true without fear.
    That is exactly how I see the dance of life.
    It certainly needs to be without the regret or fear.
    So well stated.

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  3. Kathy

    Beautiful, Corey… 💕

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  4. Jeanne

    Beautiful words.
    Thanks for all you share with us
    Love Jeanne

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  5. Anna

    I’m going to carry your beautiful reflection in my heart —- deep thoughts to savor. Thank you, Corey!

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  6. Barbara St. Aubrey

    Lovely and beautiful – like a comfortable poem to life – Although another viewpoint to the very last line…
    I’ve come to see that we are healthier if we “dance in its rhythm” embracing “regret or fear”.
    In Texas a greater portion of our trees are Live Oaks that are always green – The tired leaves from the last season dry up and fall in the Spring ‘after’ the new leaves are almost mature – Not buds but open and green full of hardly visible female bumps, the barely seen flowers that become future acorns – Without new mature green leaves there would be no acorns – The pollen holders are yellowish-beige, wormlike danglers that fall after pollination which is only a few weeks after last season’s tired spent leaves had fallen.
    The process is seamless without any winter-bare-tree-limbs typical of most deciduous trees. The Live Oak says to me that we are given regret and fear as part of our growth for future production, not to be dismissed, abandoned or thought of as unwanted.
    We may like to see regret and fear like the tired spent winter leaves but rather, regret and fear may be the barely noticeable flowers that pollinated with a life happening affect the birth and growth of another phase in our lives – with a season of sun and rain the acorn feeds animal life, leached of its poison, the acorn will provide nourishment for human consumption – Could the leaching be our working through the grief process.
    Regret is usually a loss of an expectation we held for ourselves and fear is often our lack of faith and hope in the unknown – We’ve lost our view of ourselves and grieving the painful losses allows us to go forward stronger and wiser accepting our humanity.

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  7. Shelley Noble

    Lovely.

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