lifespring
Welcome to the conversation.
I love this time of year: everything is coming alive. This morning, I ran through a shallow glen close to where I live, the trees on either side breaking out into leaf; the smell of wild garlic quite pungent in the air; a stream running through, enjoying itself in the Spring sunshine. I could get quite poetic.
As I ran through all of this beauty I wondered why it is that I enjoy Spring so much. I love the warmth of the sunshine and the brilliant colours but I think it’s because all of this nature has looked so unpromising, even dead, and then it breaks out in amazing colour, smell, shape, and sound, (leaves sound different in the Spring to the Autumn).
Running on, and thinking about these things, I then thought about how human lives can enjoy such a Spring, even after a long time of Winter. Walter Wink, in his book The Human Being confesses: ‘I am bewildered, having lived the greater part of my life, that I know so little about being human myself. I am shocked that I am still largely an amalgam of conventions and opinions and so little in touch with my real thoughts and feelings. Who am I? What might I become? Why have so many of us sold out to miniaturized versions of ourselves?’
But I have seen the Spring and long to run in it. How about you?
(Previously posted on my website: http://www.geoffreybaines.org.uk)
May 6th, 2008 at 8:27 pm
I noticed it today, too. (But from the car, not on foot!)
May 7th, 2008 at 2:26 pm
I took a short walk from the house down to the river. in the field new calfs were gambolling alongside their Mums. It makes your heart sing. But don’t rush by, you need to stop and experience the texture of spring, the velvet feel of young willow leaves, the delicacy of the cherry blossom and milk weed and for the kids to make a daisy chain. God is Creator and an innovator with Him, know matter what, there is so much hope.
Angela
May 12th, 2008 at 11:20 am
Thanks, Fiona and Angela.
Last week was a wonderful week. This week, at least for Edinburgh, has begun beneath the North Sea haar.
I just had to smile at Angela’s comment. This is so much a comment of someone appreciating the creationist’s pathway for walking with God.