Never before have I written a New Year’s letter but, I felt compelled to do so. Winter season to winter season, New Year to New Year leaves many to reflect the events of the coming year. How can I improve self? And we all know it requires action to make change.
As I walked into church today, I was looking at the landscaping foliage that was cold, brown, brittle, lifeless, and dead by all appearances. Yet look again. Berries left over from bountiful days. Petals in a state of withering and decayed suspended in time. This seems to bring a feeling of despair of a loss of days gone by that was full of life, warm, and hope.
I saw something new in the frozen foliage today. New life dormant in the snow and ice waiting to emerge at the first on-slot of the suns warm rays and a gentle spring rains. Life again will spring forth. The foliage will spring up green tender life again, new buds, berries, and flowers. They will sway in the warm breezes of spring and brighten my walk into church with color and life once again.
Life sometimes feels this way: cold and dormant.
Today a gentle reminder from God was given. He said, that there is life waiting under the cold, ice, and snow. This year’s events many times felt to me like that cold seemly dead plant life I saw.
But, I feel a warm gentle breath of God, healing rains, and a son’s light and love awakening my roots.
Activating life.
I will graduate this year, gain employment, and emerge a stronger version of self.
Happy 2013 New Year and may you experience joy, gain hope, and feel God’s restoring love!!
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