There’s a transition that occurs sometime after we’ve had a few warm days, in which I cross over to spring in my heart and in my imagination. The practical outworking of this is that I dress foolishly for the outdoors. It’s spring! What do you mean it’s only 30 degrees out? I shall wear my spring coat anyway. I saw someone today wearing shorts outside, which is a more hard core application of this than I can do.
Put your spring coat on, people.
It is spring again.
The earth is like a child
that knows poems by heart.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Ah, lovely, lovely thought. The earth knows the poems of the seasons by heart because the Poet Himself has done the teaching.
When the winds of change blow,
some people build walls
and others build windmills.
Chinese Proverb
I’m more of a wall builder when it comes to change. But think how much better to turn a profit on it by building a windmill. Is it possible? Only by God’s grace…
Finally I saw that worrying had come to nothing.
And I gave it up.
And took my old body and went out
into the morning
and sang.
Mary Oliver
Perhaps just that, going out into the morning and singing, is enough to start building that windmill. “Praise God from whom all blessings flow…”
‘The sun was warm
but the wind was chill.
You know how it is with an April day.
Robert Frost
You do know how it is on an April day. Unless you live somewhere in the South. Then you might not.
The world shimmers with spiritual meaning that lies just beneath the surface, winking at us through stone or tree or bird or star…. Artists are not creating things so much as finding them, uncovering truths God has already planted in His creation.
George MacDonald
Next time you step outside, pay attention to what is winking at you. Do you see the shimmer?
For lo, the winter is past,
the rain is over and done;
the flowers appear on the earth;
the time of the singing of birds is come.
Song of Solomon 2:11
I saw yesterday that our chive plant is starting to come up. Lo, the winter is past.
Lo, the blog post is past. In the morning.
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