October 2015

Theme: Impermanence

In her poem, The Ponds, Mary Oliver contemplates the reality of life’s impermanence.  Awareness of life’s impermanence presents us with a spiritual challenge. We can succumb to the lure of denial or the the fatigue of resignation and live our lives pretending we’ll live forever or that nothing we say or do really matters.  Or we can seek and find acceptance and live in ways that express and make the most of life’s finitude.   

Questions for Reflection

Read Mary Oliver’s The Ponds (click title)

What are ways that you succumb to the lure of denial or fatigue of resignation concerning life’s impermanence?

How do you or how might you move toward acceptance of life’s impermanence?