<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nIn some ways, it is the very \u201cpromise of spring\u201d that helps me to connect to this faith. There is a knowing of a birthing process, a movement toward new life and new creation. When I remember this, and that so much suffering in my life has resulted in magnificent new creations, I am able to choose magnanimity and cultivate love, even without always knowing the ends. A bud in the spring is waiting to bloom, and that bud cannot be torn open to flower. It also must tended, receiving water and light in order to flower and bear fruit. It bears the suffering of waiting for the right time to bloom and trusts that the blooming will happen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I have come to understand that magnanimity cultivates a reverence for every living being. As we are willing to bear suffering, we somehow become more connected to the suffering of others. We begin to realize that everyone experiences their own version of the creative birthing process. We see through suffering that there is so much that cannot be known, and thus develop the ability to be less judgmental about the situations or actions of others. Every person becomes more beautiful, more special, and more treasured. We come to appreciate the uniqueness in each individual, and their importance as a thread in the greater woven fabric of the whole. Love emerges more strongly and more purely, without attachment or co-dependence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mothers also one day have to let their children go out into the world in freedom. Perhaps they are able to let go in this way, allowing the freedom of their individual children, because they watch their children suffer in growing up, and bear their own suffering in doing so. It is certainly not only mothers, or all mothers for that matter, that have the capacity to be magnanimous. However, it does strike me that perhaps the metaphor of suffering through birthing and letting go is a good one to help all of us cultivate magnanimity and love in a stronger way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
May we all find the promise of spring within ourselves, and the magnanimity to cultivate greater love for our fellow human beings and the earth. May we aspire to the loftiness of spirit that helps us to remember the many worthy ends worth sacrificing for. May we love one another. Blessings on your spring!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Note: Much of my work with the virtues of the year comes from Robert Sardello and Robert Powell and their books \u201cThe Power of Soul: Living the Twelve Virtues,\u201d and \u201cThe Twelve Dances of the Zodiac\u201d respectively, as well as the Holy Nights Journals written by William Bento.<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As we approach spring, I have felt a quickening within myself. I notice a desire to do more, to be with others more, and to see more of the world. I feel a sense of hibernation during the winter months, and now the promise of spring is calling me out of that hibernation. 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