Happy Spring.....

If we had no winter,

the spring would not be so pleasant;

if we did not sometimes taste of adversity,

prosperity would not be so welcome.

~ Anne Bradstreet

Well spring is officially here! (although by this BC West Coast weather you'd never know it!)

For those who are regular readers of my blog you may recall my post on the "The Seasons of Life", how the seasons reflect different stages of our lives.

As I enter into this spring season ~ the time of newness and rejuvenation I do so after a period of being within myself....a period of deep reflection and a need to hibernate....a season of winter. In part as a need for physical healing, and in part because it was a necessary "season" in my life. Now as I anticipate the glory of "rejuvenation"....of "growth"....as the world comes alive in a rainbow of colour and smells....I feel that same sense within myself. There is a "lightness" in my spirit, that is beginning to replace the "heaviness" that I have felt for the last several months of winter. Is that lightness perhaps representative of "hope"....very likely.....and perhaps spring in itself represents hope....that darkness can be replaced by light, that dreary can be replaced by colour, that that which is hidden can be found, that the cycle of life in all nature's wonders continues. That light, life and hope surround us ~ all we have to do is look for it...it is still there in the times where it isn't so obvious, during the dreary, reflective days of winter....but in spring it is like a "neon reminder sign". The sign that reminds us to rejoice in the blessings of today!!! To feel that incredible feeling of hope.....of the opportunities that today brings....to feel alive in mind, body, spirit and heart.

An optimist is the human personification of spring.

Susan J. Bissonette

This particular quote seems fitting for what I am relating spring to.....to that optimism that a person who feels hope lives by.....those same feelings that spring brings.

So my beautiful friends.....embrace spring and the hope that it offers....the beauty of this amazing world that we are blessed to inhabit.....the wonderful people who touch our lives....and most of all the magnificent wonder of being you ~ created and designed to reflect beauty of creation......one who is destined to leave a mark on this world simply by being. Live in hope.....that your life holds so much potential for you to realize....that light always replaces darkness.

And yes my beautiful friend ~ Hope does float......the lightness in my spirit, despite all the challenges that life brings, tells me so...because that lightness (the buoyancy) can only come from that place of HOPE I am sure.

Hope springs eternal in the human breast:

Man never is, but always to be blessed.

Alexander Pope