Is it just me, or is this spring just about the most glorious we’ve had in years? Am I the only one who felt like this last winter dragged on and on, with the flu and colds and pneumonia chewing away weeks and months?
It’s been said that you can’t appreciate the good without the bad. I used to fight that idea, but the longer I live, the more I see that it’s true. It’s like having light without darkness. In this imperfect world, we can’t know what living with light all the time is like. So when darkness settles in our lives, light from one small pin-point emits a ray of hope, reminding us of the purity of its power.
This spring is a testament to the power of light and hope. It’s a season of poetry and prayer, as Robert Frost scribed a century ago.
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“…And make us happy in the darting bird
That suddenly above the bees is heard,
The meteor that thrusts in with needle bill,
And off a blossom in mid air stands still.
For this is love and nothing else is love,
The which it is reserved for God above
To sanctify to what far ends He will,
But which it only needs that we fulfil”
From “A Prayer in Spring” by Robert Frost, 1915