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Dominican Preaching through Word and Image
Weekly Photo Challenge: Foreshadow
What we are today foreshadows what we will be in the future. According to Carl Jung,
The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.
For some reason, we human being struggle with that, We often try to be other than who we truly are. I noticed while on retreat last week as I plucked the wild blackberries that grew everywhere, how lovely they were as tender pink flowers. And I saw their promise as unripe green and red berries. Finally, when they got to their fat black lusciousness, they tasted so sweet. The berries (or pre-berries that foreshadowed them) were satisfied to be in whatever state they were in there becoming. May we become who we truly are as gracefully (and as tastefully) as they.
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Pat, your metaphor is a very appropriate. It also made me hungry for my Mom’s blackberry pie. Thanks
Thank you, John. I often think of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s words:
Earth’s crammed with heaven,
And every common bush afire with God;
But only [she] who sees takes off [her] shoes –
The rest sit round it and pluck blackberries.
I get her point, except that this city girl that I am LOVES to pick blackberries (when I’m in the “country”) and finds the ones that are luscious and plump to be “crammed with heaven.” Blackberry pie sounds heavenly too!! Have a good week. Pat