Weighty Questions

09/02/2014

You're alive. Do something. The direction in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.
Barbara Hall

"Perhaps we are sometimes afraid to allow children to contemplate the weighty questions of life because it will mean we have to deal with them as well," observes Nancy Rosenow in Heart-Centered Teaching Inspired by Nature. She continues...

"How do we face the fact that death is a part of life? ... How do we reconcile the touching beauty of nature and gentleness of the natural world with what seems like nature's heartless cruelty? These are not easy questions, but they are ones worth asking. One of the gifts nature gives to all of us is the reassurance that a new day will always dawn... without fail. No matter how dark the night before, the sun will always rise. These may seem like clichés, but when we stop to let ourselves ponder the reality of these words, we are reminded that we, too, have been given the ability to always persevere. We have the ability to find the lesson — and the gift — in every situation, no matter how difficult. It may take a while to discover, but the gift is always there. That's a lesson I believe we might want to make part of children's 'core curriculum' — and our own."

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