I've been revisiting Sue Monk Kidd's When The Heart Waits. In her chapter on Letting Go, she discusses our resistance to change and spiritual growth. Her book explores the image/process of the metamorphosis of a larva into a butterfly: The most surprising thing I discovered is that catepillars don't yield themselves to the cocoon at the same rate. When the moment comes to spin the chrysalis arrives, some of them actually resist and cling to the larval life. ... This state of clinging has a name; it's called the "diapause." ... There is a natural diapause in the human journey of transformation -- a time when we hold onto the self we know. It seems that at the moment of our greatest possibility; a desperate clinging rises up in us. We make a valiant attempt to "save" our old life.
I remember watching my daughter, Leah, getting ready to crawl. She managed to get up on her hands and knees but seemed unable to move forward. She simply rocked back and forth. Her mother and I became worried. Was something wrong? Then we received our monthly newsletter on child development which explained that one set of muscles was needed to hold her up while another set of muscles had to be engaged to move her forward. When she finally tried to crawl ... she fell on her sweet face. She returned to her "diapause" for awhile but soon was crawling all over the house.
Our lives include a series of passages or transitions where we often resist the next step, stage, opportunity (select your descriptive word). We cling ... a diapause ... a temporary stopping point ... before moving through. Our life prepares us with multiple passages/diapauses for the final transition for this life to the next.
Yesterday in worship (while exploring the last 24 Hours of Jesus life) we spent some time with Jesus in Gethsemane. A diapause of sorts before saying to his disciples: Rise, let us be on our way.
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