Before You Go

The birds and tree frogs are venturing out little by little to sing their spring songs. Tiny pink blossoms unfold and sway under the sun’s gentle wooing. It is time for you to sleep once more. But before you go, I want to honor you and thank you for your presence with us. I confess, you are not my favorite season, but your qualities are many and must be acknowledged.

Thank you, Winter.

Thank you for sending our roots down deep to sleep so we could gather strength for the coming seasons. We would forever bloom out–spent beyond measure, if you did not make us rest. Thank you for holding us quiet and making us huddle closer together to find warmth.

We did.

Thank you for your gentle and sometimes not so gentle hushing. We got the message and savored the silence for awhile. Your blankets, although cold and heavy, gave us peace.

Thank you for reminding us to play again and for shutting down the work, work, work. Thank for you peals of laughter, sledding by moonlight, and warm chili around the table with faces we need to memorize. Thank you for hot chocolate and Christmas lights and snow angels who watched over us with joy.

Thank you. You have been a challenge, like the discipline of a stern teacher whom we secretly adore.

We will welcome you gladly again if God gives us another year. With childlike upturned faces, we will wait with anticipation and wonder for those first snowflakes to fall.

And thank you Jesus, for providing us with all good things.

 

Ecclesiastes 3:1 ~”There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens.”

Psalm 147:16 ~”He gives snow like wool; He scatters the frost like ashes.”