When is Spring Coming?

Seriously, Spring is right around the corner.  You can see glimpses of it peeking through the clouds.  You have the spring rains, the longer days, the birds chirping in the morning, the chipmunks and squirrels running around.  Also, not to mention yesterday I was staring at three rabbits as they stared back at me.  The temperatures on average are starting to climb!
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But it’s not just there yet.  Even though some flowers are blooming, we can sense Spring is here, but we still have winter’s reminders of cold mornings.  But the anticipation of Spring is really getting me on the edge of my seat.

It reminds me about how we should be excited about Easter.  I was just on the phone with Orchid Huff, and we talked about the excitement of Easter.  And this period of Lent is the anticipation of Easter to come!  I love Easter, because it’s just a great symbol of the arrival of Spring. 

On Easter day our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ rolled the tomb away from his grave.  The darkness being pushed back, the warm soothing light emerges!  Opening the tomb is the reawakening of new life that comes with accepting Christ in your life!  It reminds us of our Baptism, the day that we become Christians and that day is all about living a new life.  Spring season is as such as well!  Winter has some of the coldest, longest nights of the calendar year.  But Spring comes around, pushing the darkness back, allowing the warmth of the sun’s light emerge and create longer days of brightness.  Spring is a renewal of life.  Winter, the trees were barren of leaves and the grass brown and covered with ice and snow.  Nothing was emerging from the cold ground.  But Spring comes in, grass gets color, and the trees begin to bud and grow leaves.  That ground that grew nothing during winter is now emerging with flowers poking through, awakening from the cold ground. 

Spring is coming, it’s close and with Spring comes Easter!  So, feel hope once again, feel renewed, feel the warm of the Son once again.  Winters cold air and bitter winds will not imprison us anymore!  Thanks be to God!

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