Lent

The sometimes somber tone of Lent can at times be juxtaposed with the beauty of a bright Spring in North Carolina. Do I feel down and low or cheerful and ready for new life.

In other places around the world, winter is still in full effect. We barely had winter at all in North Carolina, for which I for one, am thankful.

Season is everything with the psyche. Seasonal affective disorder, beach season, the crispness of fall, the quiet that comes during snowfall.

Take note of the season and see how it is running with your mood or against it. How is the creator providing a day, a weather system, a whole climate in order to shape your life? Are you shifting with the seasons?

F. Buechner once said, "Preach the day." What a great thing to preach.

Grossula Sport

She rests lazily on the sill

What is there to do, really?

It’s April and sun beats down, but not too hard

Temps are barely 65 and 40s in the pre-dawn

Oh Spring,

Praise to the Maker

But flow and flow and flow some more

IS what she does

But that’s only the flipping branch

Like mama’s hair two score and five ago

The rest of the strands stand erect

They’ve not found their flow

Or their in a flow, but blocked

Pleasing the sun and the roots

Only north and south

Up and down

They dare not live outside the pot

Only the one branch lives outside the interior safe place

She curls up and over and

She is showing a pinkish strand

Is it a flower?

Praise to the Maker

Her budding branches grow faster than all the rest

Even though she is furthest from the core of nutrition and the center of the root

Even flow is not what is seen here

No

It is uneven flow

We are not all in the same flow

Some branches flow in ways they do not know

We do not know

And yet they go and go and go

The Wild Roses

Blooming
they can't be contained
never thought they would
unleashed
revolting from dormancy
no one can stop them
no one can contain them
they bleed on a green backdrop
no matter that I see them behind black iron bars
that's just a fence
with a gate for me
but for these buds
they will grow through if they so desire
perhaps even clinging and wrapping
becoming one