Anybody else feel like the world was off its axis this week? Snow storms, below-freezing temps. Egypt in scary turmoil. It was all I heard talk of on my AM radio this week. Reminders that...
We are forever at the mercy of Nature's whims.
And sometimes we are at the mercy of our insatiable, restless human Nature.
I feel like the world is in labor pains, the two Nature's smack in the middle of some crazy contractions. All of it makes me long for a heavenly home.
Yesterday I stood at the base of this tree and looked upwards into the tangle of the winter branches. There are no spring buds yet. Every year at this time I begin to watch, take daily notation of what is stirring underneath.
Sometimes I feel like winter is one long delivery room in which the punctuation of birth is preceded by bursts of budding contractions. I saw the first California Poppy blooms the other day on, of all places, a freeway exit ramp. The poppies are one of the first spring contractions here in California and I have taught my kids to wait and look for them. They are signs to me of Spring's impending birth.
So while I drive around, listening to my radio news reports, marveling at the destructive wake left by both Nature's I am also reminded that there is always new birth waiting to be found after the painful winter labor pains have passed.
That is, if we are so inclined to keep our eyes and hearts open to finding it.
3 comments:
Beautiful shot and beautiful words :)
K xo
Hi,
I found your blog through a mutual blog friend and I love it! Beautiful clean photos, fresh words, very lovely. I'll be back!
what beautiful and poignant writing, tracey. i know what you mean... sometimes, i watch the news and think... "man, it can't be long before we meet our savior face to face." but i have to say, being pregnant now, i long less for heaven than i used to. i know nothing will compare to being with our savior, but i really look forward to raising a little one. i don't fret about it. but your post has made me think a little... i'm sometimes disheartened about all that i see around me. and life is so personally difficult for so many i know. but i identify so much right now with the "new birth" you speak of... waiting to be found. i identify in SO many ways.
that said, i love how you are intentional about wanting your kids to see poppies come spring... to wait for them. my sweet mama was that way with us, only with dandelions and robins. she always said, those are her first signs of spring, and although a dandelion is a weed, it means spring is here and so it is so much more!
i'll never look at a dandelion quite the same because of her.
beautiful photo of the trees here. not sure if you noticed {by the gallery on my blog named such}, but i am so fascinated by trees. i could photograph them all day long. sometimes i do. =)
so glad we've connected elsewhere in cyberspace. this is so much fun!
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