For Everything There Is a Season

This week I welcomed spring with open arms. I look forward to jogs at the Shades Creek Greenway near my home and taking evening strolls through my apartment community beneath the cherry blossoms. And spring means flip flops, tank tops, and cute cropped jeans. 


But walks and wardrobe changes aren’t the only reasons I was excited about the equinox. As spring rolled around I reflected on how nature teaches us that we should and that we must change to flourish and to survive. The world reminds us that there is a season for everything, that even the winters of our lives have purpose. 


Consider which season of life you’re in right now and what you can learn from it. Reflect on the changes you will make as Mother Nature changes her hair for glorious spring. 




After the Winter
by Claude McKay


Some day, when trees have shed their leaves
And against the morning’s white
The shivering birds beneath the eaves
Have sheltered for the night,
We’ll turn our faces southward, love,
Toward the summer isle
Where bamboos spire to shafted grove
And wide-mouthed orchids smile.

And we will seek the quiet hill
Where towers the cotton tree,
And leaps the laughing crystal rill,
And works the droning bee.
And we will build a cottage there
Beside an open glade,
With black-ribbed blue-bells blowing near,
And ferns that never fade.