How do they know?
Did you ever ask yourself how the flowers know just when to jump up out of the ground? How does the sap know when it is time to start flowing? Who sounds the alarm that sends the birds scurrying back up north? Many people would rather believe in “mother nature” than a Heavenly Father who controls the timing of the seasons. It does amaze me how the plants struggle to push through the hardened earth to reach for the sun and bloom. Spring is rebirth, renewal, and hope. That must be why Alexander Pope wrote in his poem ‘Essay of Man,’ that; hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest. We take so much for granted each and every day. Our health, homes, food, loved ones, and our friends are just a few of the blessings we enjoy every day.
Take time to listen to the birds, watch the clouds, and smell the air after a rain, these are but a few of the simple blessings we have every day in our lives. Seasons come and seasons go, just like the cycles of lives. Enjoy whatever season you are in right now in your life. Don’t take any relationship for granted, because like the seasons, they may be here one moment and gone the next.
Spring has always been a special time in my life, because I love the flowers and the return of the birds, and the smell of the fresh turned soil. I love the thought of renewal, for spring to take the drab and make it glad, with color and aromas.
Spring is also the time we celebrate Easter, which is the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Because of his sacrifice, we can know a rebirth of our own, through His redeeming blood. Another reason I love spring!
As parents we need to teach our children the true meaning of Easter, and it is not candy and colored eggs. We need to help them understand how Jesus, who was innocent, took on all the sins of the world, so we might be saved. Redemption and rebirth should be the theme of Easter.
We as authors have a hard time describing the different seasons in words that do them justice. All we can do is try to portray God’s handiwork with our feeble words, and in our real lives take time to enjoy the wonders of the changing of the seasons!
For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone;
The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land;
Song of Solomon 2:11-12
And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
Genesis 1:14
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
Ecclesiastics 3:1
He sendeth the springs into the valleys, which run among the hills.
Psalms 104:10
And he changeth the times and the seasons: he removeth kings, and setteth up kings: he giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to them that know understanding:
Daniel 2:21