Spring is a season of hope. No matter how mild the winter, this time every year we wait anxiously for the beginning of Spring and the “new” it brings. And it’s less than three weeks away! Looking from my office window I’m not seeing a change in season yet - but assured it’s hidden within the mix of a robin perched on a naked … [Read more...]
Spring for the Soul
Looking out my March-window shows mixed signs of spring resting on a snow shovel. But Ash Wednesday is Wednesday and there’s something about the day that makes me look forward to everything un-winter. In my soul . . . The beginning of the Lenten season seems to shake winter right out of the heart to create space for the … [Read more...]
Spring Hope
At this moment spring is 21 days, 16 hours and 36 minutes away. Yes! Three weeks. Somehow the hope of spring hibernates in the middle of the dreary count down . . . It's much the same when we’re waiting for hope in what appears to be hopeless situations – whether it’s within the headlines in the world or the headlines in … [Read more...]
Desert to Destination
No matter how early Ash Wednesday comes every year we always have the assurance spring is waiting around the cold corner to unveil the earth with new life. It’s Ash Wednesday – almost. And it brings hope and a 40-day journey that has purpose and destination. Resurrection. Lent, an Old English word meaning spring, begins … [Read more...]
Blind Sighted
Have you noticed in the blink of an eye we can get blind-sided by life? It was the winter that held on with both frozen fists, so I figured that must be the reason everything looked so colorless and bleak. Then the earth woke up and started putting on a few pastel garments of spring, but everything still looked gray. I wasn’t … [Read more...]