Ah Spring!

It was the first Sunday of April and granddaughter, Kaylyn, climbed a tree with a good book. The warm sunshine, chirping birds, and awakening earth encourages us to go beyond the ordinary and explore new possibilities. They call it "Spring Fever", this urge to escape the shackles of winter and embrace the promise of new life and new adventures. In his book, Guerrillas of Grace, Ted Loder prays the following.

It is spring, Lord.

and my blood runs warm with the song of the sap.

longing

for a beauty I would become.

And there is the mystery

and the smile of it.

The buds are swelling on the bush,

the sun is beginning to coax the color

from where it's been curled against the cold,

the air is sweet to the nostrils;

even the city seems to be rubbing its eyes

from a long sleep.

It is spring, Lord,

and something stirs in me,

reaching, stretching,

groping for words,

peeking through my defenses,

beckoning in my laughter,

riding on past my fears,

pulsing in my music.

Ah Spring!