Awakening to Wholeness is a series of prompts, reflections, and teachings about how holding the tension of opposites can help us to heal division and experience wholeness. If you feel moved to share your own reflections, we invite you to email us with the subject line “Wisdom of Opposites.”
Growing and blossoming are both part of one process, yet they are distinct parts.
To grow is to become. To grow is to develop. To grow is to expand and take up space that was beforehand empty. To grow is to get stronger, fuller, rounder, deeper…whatever the trajectory. Growing is a dynamic part of the process.
To blossom is to come to fruition. To blossom is to arrive in at least one layer of fullness. To blossom is to present, to show off, in good ways. To blossom is to offer a contribution. To blossom is to claim the spot in which you are rooted. To blossom is to fill out, to beautify, to spill over and take up a space. Blossoming is a celebratory part of the process.
A third force, the transforming part of the process, is harvest. To harvest is to collect the fruit or cut the flower. To harvest is to place a pause on the process, that the something new, which has grown and blossomed, might be given over to new life, be it service or consumption or a simple continuation of beauty. To harvest is to draw from the particular in service to the universal, to the common good.
May all things be blessed in the transformative process of growing, blossoming, and harvesting!
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Christine Luna Munger
Christine Luna Munger, PhD currently serves as the director of the Episcopal House of Prayer. She previously served as Coordinator of the Spiritual Direction Certificate and Professor of Theology at St. Catherine University. She regularly writes, teaches, and leads group prayer sits at EHoP.
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