Aging can bring wisdom — if we pay attention

2022 November Blog Carol Kandiko, CSA ~ Autumn is an appropriate season to consider the relationship between aging and wisdom. After all, in the course of one spring and summer, the landscape has aged and turned brilliant! Somehow the world around us has changed and in the self-giving of the trees there is a perennial wisdom that touches us every time this natural letting go takes place. What looks like desolation is the preparation for another spring.

We considered in our Reflective Prayer recently that time unfolds in moments. Each moment is new — a threshold, a portal, a bridge — a newness often disguised as loss, brokenness or death. How many changes in our lives seem like the end of our world when we first encounter them? It’s when we are willing to live through the change with awareness of God-with-us that we come in time to realize new life.

This is the season when we are invited to look back over the past year and recall the thresholds we have passed through and survived. With autumn exuberance we can be astonished at what we know now that we didn’t know a year ago. If we have paid attention we actually are not only older, but a little wiser.

We anticipate our twentieth year as Centering Space to be one of growth in wisdom, age and wonder. Our spirits united with the One Spirit of love will widen our circle of peace, reflection and ministry.

Join us in all of our celebrations in 2023 and experience the wonder!