Vintage Everything // Habbot Pumps (worn with vintage shoe clips)
What do vegetables, Jesus and this vintage woolen houndstooth cape have in common?
Having just experienced another Easter, I’ve been doing a lot of thinking and reading about the concept of “death into life”. It can seem like a foreign concept to talk about it that way around, because most people think that life leads into death – but not vice versa. However, when you think about it, “death into life” happens every day, all around us. As one article put it, unless the fresh food that we eat dies, it cannot help to sustain our lives. Even when clothing is made from natural, organic materials, those materials must die to make the fabric, and then we cut up the fabric to give it its new “life” as clothing – which in this case was discarded and then given new life again as a vintage piece in my wardrobe. Ok, fine, so clothes aren’t alive – but they are transformed and given new purpose beyond their living origins. That totally still counts.
Easter is the commemoration of Jesus performing the ultimate example of “death into life”. We are reminded that Easter is not just about death – if it were, it would make “Good Friday” a very peculiarly named day taken on its own. Instead, Easter is about new life – death into life – and the opportunity of a new beginning, a new purpose and a blank slate. So you can always celebrate life after death by remembering to eat your vegetables, wearing vintage natural fibres and thanking God for Easter.
That blue sweater goes so well with the ”pied de coq” cape!
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I hope you had a lovely Easter Cecylia! :) It is a very interesting way to look at things, but I find Easter makes me very reflective! :) Sounds like it is the same for you :)
That is a lovely cape coat as well! I keep waiting for the weather to cool off in Brisbane so I can wear a pretty jacket – it will be a little while off I think!
I’ve just been reading an awesome book called ‘He satisfies my soul’ by Dr Paul Brand which touches
on this topic! One of the stories told is about a young doctor Dr Richard Dawson in WWII, who served as the medical officer in a prisoner of war camp under the Japanese during the building of the infamous Burma Siam railway.He watched helplessly as hundreds died of dysentery and typhoid.He had no intravenous fluids or medications to combat their dehydration.Sanitation was minimal and drinking water was taken from swamps contaminated by the excrement of dying soldiers.One day Dr Dawson remembered that the water in a green coconut was always sterile and pure.He devised a method of using it as an intravenous infusion.Amazingly his patients began to recover.The coconut trees had drawn their sap from the deadly swamp, filtered and purified it before putting it into the precious coconuts that saved men’s lives.All caused by a miracle- the ability of the roots of the coconut palm to turn putrefaction into purity, death into life!
Oh my, this outfit is just adorable! The cape is too pretty and I also love your shoes!
Have a great week,
-Kati
P.S.: Thanks for leaving such nice comment on my last post!
thank you for your sharing CC & aunty Margaret!
I’ll now eat my vegetables, wear my vintages, drink my coconuts and thank God for Easter + all of the above :D