With Spring’s new life, comes new hope.
I find myself encouraged and my spirits uplifted as I return to digging and planting in my garden.
Each season captures life both seen and unseen. Within each growing thing, there is hidden life ready to surge upwards as winter melts away and the sun warms the frozen ground. Or in the case of the desert – rainfall awakens the new growth. I will never forget, while living in Arizona, the amazing sight of the arid desert turning green and then becoming awash with color after the spring rains. For a short few weeks, sometimes only days, the desert bloomed!
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For me, Spring illuminates faith.
Faith that from under Winter’s snow mantle, the desert’s sands and life’s sufferings and sorrows, hope endures and will emerge. The themes of awakening, of re-birth, of the power, vitality and exuberance of nature coming alive again is made visible in trees leafing out. I imagined lying on the ground and gazing up through a leafy canopy – dreaming and meditating.
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What in nature, inspires hope for you?