Springtime

I love spring.

I really do. I have quite an obsession with it in fact. Maybe it's because it's so beautiful. Maybe it's because it holds my birthday. Or maybe it's because it makes me feel awake and alive again. But mainly I think it's because it comes after winter. I have never been a fan of winter, it has always been my least favorite season. Winter is only bearable when it's Christmas time, but after that, it's all I can do to make it through. And the only way I do is because I know someday soon, spring will come. And today it did. It's 46 degrees outside and beautiful!

I think spring is especially beautiful because it so often resembles our lives. Often times we find ourselves caught in winter, having a rough day, or just feeling down. But things will get better, hope will return, and spring will arrive. Anne Bradstreet said it well when she said, "If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome." Or as the scriptures read, "It must needs be, that there is opposition in all things."

And so, today the sun is shining, the flower buds are peaking out at me, spring has come, and I, I am content.