“The Great Spirit is an omnipresent supreme life force generally conceptualized as a Supreme Being or god. The Great Spirit is a central component in many … indigenous cultures in Canada and the United States.”
- Wikipedia
Perhaps nature’s greatest affirmation of the Great Spirit is the coming of spring.
“Ramadan is a month in the Islamic calendar – Islam’s holy month, because during it Muhammad received his initial revelation and (ten years later) made his historic Hijrah (Migration) from Mecca to Medina.”
- The World’s Religions; Huston Smith
“Passover, [in Judaism, commemorates] the Hebrews’ liberation from slavery in Egypt and the ‘passing over’ of the forces of destruction, or the sparing of the firstborn of the Israelites, when the Lord ‘smote the land of Egypt’ on the eve of the Exodus.”
- Britannica
“For God so loved the world that He gave His only-begotten Son, that those who believe in Him may not perish, but may have life everlasting.”
- John 3:16
Whether one sees this season of the year as one to mark the time at which the Almighty established a pact with His people, or liberated His people, or redeemed His people, or simply as one of renewal, it is the most wondrous of our seasons: the time to appreciate and – if you believe in a loving and merciful God – to give thanks for the Blessing of Life.
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