Good morning…
Enjoying a homemade, outdoor birthday dinner with two besties in my bundle, I am so grateful I was born in the spring. Spring is new life, longer days, and bursting beauty. Spring is renewal, revamping, reimagining. Spring is what happens when we wait with hope through the dark, cold, harsh, winter after winter.
The day after our soul-filling evening, along with this picture my friend sent these wonderful words posted that morning by author Sue Monk Kidd.
Short-lived blossoms burst to life, die away, and eventually new blossoms are reborn. This special spring let’s take extra time to loiter in hanami, the art of cherry-blossom-watching. May we let God’s profuse beauty sink into us.
Might “the thing” in cherry blossoms be happening in our innermost being? Life. Death. Renewal.
The one I love calls to me:
Arise, my dearest. Hurry, my darling.
Come away with me!
I have come as you have asked
to draw you to my heart and lead you out.
For now is the time, my beautiful one.
The season has changed,
the bondage of your barren winter has ended,
and the season of hiding is over and gone.
The rains have soaked the earth
and left it bright with blossoming flowers.
The season for singing and pruning the vines has arrived.
I hear the cooing of doves in our land,
filling the air with songs to awaken you
and guide you forth.
Can you not discern this new day of destiny
breaking forth around you?
The early signs of my purposes and plans
are bursting forth.
The budding vines of new life
are now blooming everywhere.
The fragrance of their flowers whispers,
“There is change in the air.”
Arise, my love, my beautiful companion,
and run with me to the higher place.
For now is the time to arise and come away with me (Song of Solomon 2:10-13, TPT).
Can you not discern this new day of destiny breaking forth around us? This special spring, may we arise with our Companion and quietly step into the higher purposes of God, fragrant plans blooming everywhere.
…Sue…
