Apr 13 2025 31 mins
This week’s message explores the mysterious, disorienting, and deeply fertile space between what was and what’s to come. Using the cocoon as a metaphor for those liminal stages of life—where the old dissolves and the new has yet to emerge—we reflect on what it means to hold space for grief, confusion, and loss as essential parts of transformation.
Just like in nature, transformation doesn’t happen all at once. It requires dissolution, discomfort, and the courage to remain present. Through pop culture parallels, personal reflection, and spiritual insight, we explore how letting go of the old—beliefs, identities, institutions—opens the door to a deeper, more authentic emergence.
We also honor the importance of sitting in that space fully, without rushing to resolution. This is the cocoon—the tomb and the womb, the dark soil where seeds break open and the true self begins to form. Resurrection isn’t just a day on a calendar; it’s a process we live into, one that starts by trusting the darkness.
As we prepare for Easter, we invite you to embrace the in-between, honor what’s dying, and trust that life is reshaping you in ways unseen.
Quotes:
Chameli Ardagh:
“The spiritual journey is not about getting out of the cocoon quickly. It’s about allowing yourself to dissolve inside it.”
Richard Rohr:
“The predictable pattern of spiritual transformation is a movement from order to disorder to reorder. This is the universal pattern of change and growth.”
“If we try to skip the disorder stage, we stay stuck in a superficial order that cannot hold the weight of real life.”
Alan Watts:
“Jesus willingly walked into his fate. He didn’t resist death, and in doing so, he transcended it. That is the core of the spiritual path—not to avoid suffering, but to transform it by going through it consciously.”
Francis Weller:
“We must have the courage to walk directly into the heart of our sorrow. Not around it, not above it, but through it….To truly sit with our sorrow is to honor it. Not to rush it. Not to medicate it. But to listen deeply to its wisdom.”
Elizabeth Kubler-Ross:
“The five stages—denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance—are tools to help us frame and identify what we may be feeling. They are not stops on some linear timeline in grief… They were never meant to help tuck messy emotions into neat packages. They are responses to loss that many people have, but there is not a typical response to loss as there is no typical loss.”
“Acceptance is not about liking a situation. It is about acknowledging all that has been lost and finding a way to live with it.”