Lent 14 - Spring

So today is the first day of Spring!

Really?

It is 26 degrees out

The ground is brown with remnants of white dirty snow

still holding on tight

winter’s desperate attempt to hold on to the earth

snow is in the forecast

and in the shadow of the big pines, nothing has dared poke its head through

the still frozen earth

and yet

and yet

change comes

spring inexorably emerges

slowly perhaps

but infallibly

the dark and frozen times

never win

winter always passes

summer comes

then fall

then winter again

but ah

spring

so too life

there are moments of bright new energy

moments of comfort

moments of decline

and moments when we feel overwhelmed

by the darkness

we feel as if the frozen, barren days will never pass

but always

there is spring

that moment when the sun

rises

when hope and love

push their ways through the frozen landscape of our souls

and life

springs forth again

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Isaiah 43:19   See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.