The weather has been as unpredictable here as else where in the USA. UGH!
We had amazing 80ish weather so far this week. Then the wind (and it RARELY is windy here, not even breezy) kicked into high gear and drove the cold and wet that I was happy to leave in the mid-north of the country; and brought it here! Give me back my southern spring!!! Last year was INCREDIBLE. Amazing! The qunessental south. Not this year! Up and down we go.
So I have been enjoying being out in the sun and outdoors as much as I can these past few days. Just sitting and writing. Puttering around in the garden and even washing the bed linens and hanging them in the backyard for that wonderfully fresh smell that no bottle can EVER deliver, no matter WHAT they promise.
Sitting on the grass getting an early start on my healthy glow while talking on the phone. Dreading that it’s not here to stay….YET!
Yesterday Kaleb came home from a friend’s house and presented me with a perfect blossom! He’s my giver of my children.
The beautiful smile and blush on his face was perfect when I told him it was the lovelist, most perfect flower I had ever been given. And it is! He thought of me when he saw that delicate, fair blossom. Who wouldn’t think that it wasn’t the most perfect flower they had ever recived?
He said I was suppose to wear it behind my ear. So I carefully placed it there and asked him how I looked? I told him I needed a picture of me wearing it! So even when the blossom faded, I’d have the picture always of me with most perfect flower I had ever been given.
Being the mini me shutter bug he is, he snapped pictures as soon as the camera phone was in his hands!! HeHe He’s beyond adorable and cherished! He’s my Kaleb-baleb!
I had just sent flowers to a sick friend and she called right then to tell me she had recived them and how they made her smile every time she gazed at them. I then told her about having just been given a flower as well and agreed that the magic found in those enchanting petals filled the world with love like nothing else could, How much God loves us can be told by the flowers He has filled this world with!
After telling my friend that I continued to lift her up in prayer and positive thoughts for a full and swift recovery I looked about me as if I had opened my eyes for the first time to spring.
I saw the tree that was teaming with the white perfection that matched the one I loving wore tucked behind my ear.
I recall a song from Sunday school that fit the announcement of spring beautifully.
Popcorn Popping on the Aiprocot Tree
Not only was the garden I had eagerly and happily planted and willing to grow budding and renewing, the world around me was. Reminding me that cold, wet, dreary days lead to LIFE…
The lone green bush in the front walk flower bed was SHOUTING that there was NO turning back. That regardless of the snipping cold that kept returning, This beautiful bloom (BTW; this is the orginal photo! No touch up, enlarging or cropping!) was going NO WHERE and no cold weather was going to make this bloom bow down and surrender!
A much needed lesson I learned from nature yesterday. Stop my whinning and complaining. Spring IS here, embrace it!
Breathing Life IN 