Spring

Just the word SPRING denotes excitement, expecting. What are we expecting or excited about? Some how being excited about a seasonal change just doesn't seem to fit the feeling that is welling up inside. We see new life around us and we are overwhelmed by it all

Many years ago a very wise lady told me, as I was planting a package of seeds, that I should not be upset when only 80 of the 100 sees germinate but should marvel at the fact that 80 of them were filled with life.

Life is a precious thing and yet we take it so much for granted. Life, to life and experience everything around us, is a gift. After all we could have been part of the 20% that didn't get that chance.

Today bulbs are peeking their heads out of the gound knowing what they are supposed to do. They are looking forward to being the best that they were designed to be.

We are all programmed to be the best at whatever we are meant to be. How then do some of these seeds fail? In the Bible, I remember that some of the seeds fell on rocky soil. Yet I know of seeds that have been raised on very rocky ground but have pulled themselves up to be wonderful beings. So I guess that I don't understand that Bible reference. It would be easy to be wonderful and fulfill our destiny if we were raised in a perfect background. That doesn't always happen.

Spring is the time to dream, hope and wonder at everything around us. Most of us are trying to find what our purpose is. (What we have been programmed to do or be) According to my son, the purpose of life is to help. All of us feel good when we are helping.

Do you think that birds know they are helping when they are sitting on the tree outside my window chirping? I hope so because it does help to lift ones feelings. Maybe helping isn't a big thing, like inventing free energy but it is the little things that we do for each other. Sometimes it is just listening.

Is it possible that we all have been given talents to use in helping others? A painter, paints and in so doing, lifts the spirit of another. A singer, sings and does the same thing. So then all we really have to do is to find what our talent is, we will then know how to help others.

Spring seems to bring out the best in people, the expectation to do better. (And you thought it was the New Year's resolutions.) Spring is growth in everything including humans. I guess we need to work out the best way to do this.