I’m not sure about you…but…I am giddy that we have stepped into the world of the newness of spring! Are you?
Can you imagine life without spring? Transitioning from winter to summer without the beauty that spring offers would be brutal.
For me, the looking forward to the spring season began in February with a trip to the Nashville Antiques and Garden show. If you haven’t been, let me encourage you to make plans for next year.
The gardens’ set up for perusing and enjoying were magnificent as always. Sessions on gardening and plants were available. Shops were set up to inspire new plants and things for your home.
After cold weather and the harshness of winter, I am ready for the newness of life here and watching for the tulips, daffodils, and forsythia to appear.
Garden beds are ready to watch for the sprouting of new life when my herbs, irises, and peonies come to life in the months ahead.
If you aren’t a gardener, I am certain you are still an appreciator of all the newness that begins this time of year to remind us that there is hope and beauty still in this world.
So, hold that thought.
Newness.
Aren’t we all ready for season changes when they occur…and the transition to spring is perhaps the most welcome of seasons?
I realize that Easter is symbolic of new life in so many ways and this year that celebration is in April.
But, with new life beginning and the daylight lengthening, there is newness in the air.
Perhaps with that thought…I am thinking maybe this is the time of year to make new plans, or set new goals, or even reevaluate directions.
It’s a time of year for more outdoor walks and talks. The newness permeates the sights and smells that you simply can’t avoid.
Adding something new to do with those you love provides memories etched with that new activity and helps strengthen the relationship.
Doesn’t it make sense that we attach memories to the first experience of something new? How are you doing in that department?
Plan something new with those you love and create those moments that will last a lifetime.
So, planning will be taking place here. Spring cleaning inside and out…but, perhaps…more spring cleaning of the heart needs to take place, too, to make certain that the focus on life and new life is in perspective.
As I sit with my feet under my table and share with you today, I’ll be pondering on all of that.
Often this season places us in activities that set our lives so fast and furiously in a tailspin that we miss too much all around us.
We have had many conversations at the table on dealing with so many changes that have taken place in so many ways for the past two years.
We have grown weary. Weary of celebrating newness, people, places, and even quiet moments.
My conversation to you today, friends, is to find moments and embrace them in new ways. Perhaps respond in a way that you haven’t done before. Find new things to bring you joy.
Replace the ways of looking at things that have taken us out of our comfortable routines and added an unsteadiness to life. Find the steady again in your life. Find the joy in new routines. Whatever you do…don’t miss the newness to embrace.
Because simply…there will never be another season just like the one you are in today.
