Day 36: Spring

I'm sitting at McDonalds just off the highway exit. It's one of the few places open before 6. I discovered that getting up super early and coming to work gives me time to focus and things done. Moms have to employ a level of creativity to scheduling to make life work.

Since daylight savings time, I've dreaded my early mornings. It's dark and cold and I just want to stay in bed. The up side of this is that every morning I get to watch the sun rise over the hills and see the golden light dance on the dew covered grass -- softening the vast landscape. Today is particularly striking. With the spring comes a magnificent greening of the world that reminds me of the resilience of life. The air drips of it and I breath deeply to take it in.

I feel the Spirit pushing me, calling me, guiding me on.

It's easy to get caught up in the surface of things. The list of things to do. The specifics of life's current situation. It's easy to focus on a struggle against the things that irritate, stress or hurt us in the day to day. It's easy to lose perspective and think that that's what life is.

But, there is more.

Sometimes if we breathe deeply and take in the wind of the Spirit, we can see life's circumstances as an invitation to something new or something bigger or deeper. Like the green of spring, new shoots may start to grow from the brown patches of our hearts when the warm wind of the Spirit breathes life.