Spring has sprung, with the turning of day to day on the calendar. Though it is just the passing of time that heralds the new season in, the change of seasons on the calendar reminds us that things change, that there is always something new around the next corner.
Just yesterday, it was still winter … so said the calendar.
Over a hundred years ago, William Sharp wrote the poem, The Crystal Forest, and it so describes the most delightful winter that the Pacific Northwest has enjoyed (or endured):
“The air is blue and keen and cold,
With snow the roads and fields are white
But here the forest’s clothed with light
And in a shining sheath enrolled.
Each branch, each twig, each blade of grass,
Seems clad miraculously with glass:
Above the ice-bound streamlet bends
Each frozen fern with crystal ends.”
And now, that winter has past. It was yesterday, spring is today.
I remembered that spring had come as I sat in a theatre of spring-seekers today.
“Winter turns to spring
Famine turns to feast
Nature points the way
Nothing left to say
Beauty and the Beast”
As love was declared, as the rose re-gained it’s fallen petals, as the shadows over the castle were cast away by the light, as the lungs of the ‘beast’ were filled with life-giving air, the song from the beloved story play.
Spring had come to the castle-topped mountain, and everything the light touched was transformed into something new.
Love came through Christ, and he fulfilled the work of his love in his Easter gift, casting away the shadows.
Spring is more than just a date on a calendar, it is change pointed the way through nature, and fulfilled by the Creator of the world.
“He made the moon to mark the seasons,
and the sun knows when to go down.”
Psalm 104:19
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