Spring is coming. Spring will arrive.
One terrible moment is not the center of everything. Nor is it the end of everything.
The undeniable promise remains that the world will bloom once more, whether we are around to witness it or not.
Darkness may blanket the earth in a cold unyielding silence, but beneath it the seeds are already stirring, the roots are already reaching.
Nature is gathering the quiet strength to begin anew.
The Spring thaw starts not with fanfare, but in the smallest signs—
a faint warmth creeping through the chill,
the soft drip of melting icicles,
the first tentative bud poking its nose through the frozen soil.
The earth itself will slowly shake off the weight of winter’s cold hard grip, breathing in the air of possibility once again.
Winter may try to resist it, but it cannot last forever.
Because Spring’s quiet persistence is a force of its own.
Spring always comes—softly at first, then with a rush, reminding us that even after the harshest of winters, renewal is always within reach.
There is always another beginning, always another chance to grow, to breathe, and to live again
Let us carry the memory of the seasons and the cycles into the hard times, and know that Spring is coming. Because Spring always comes.
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Spring is the fifth installment in the five part Sacred Ground video series, based on Christy Berghoef’s upcoming book, Rooted: A Memoir of Homecoming.
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4 Responses
Following a heavy political week, as I am making the final preparations for my sermon this morning, your words reiterate my reflections on the Transfiguration and the prophet’s words, “But for you who revere my name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings. And you will go out and leap like calves released from the stall.”
Thank You Christy!
“There is always another beginning…”. Thank you for this beautiful reminder. Living in W Michigan , I always feel that Lent coinciding with the coming of spring is appropriate somehow. The longing for warmth and sunshine, the “how long, Lord”, the dark days make Easter all the more joyful! Thank you for the truth that God is working in hidden, cold places.
Christy, thank you for this beautiful reminder. In a book by Anne Lamott that I read recently, she quoted a proverb that has the same theme, though much more blunt. It goes something like this: “You can cut down all the flowers, but you can’t keep spring from coming.”
Ah, spring! Only the stalwart can truly appreciate your fine poem. It’s why we resist the lure to flee south.