Spring Again

Alice Oakleaf Hydrangea

As we head toward the summer solstice on June 20th, my flowers are enjoying the warmer and rainy weather. Each year they remake themselves after the cold dormant days of winter, opening up to the enticing rays of the sun.For many of us, life had not become a time of rhythms like we find in nature, but instead it was a constant, weary battle. We’d spend our days struggling to get “caught up”, crossing 80% off our daily “to-do list”, but never 100%. We didn’t have a quiet rest as our dreams of things left undone would awaken us in the middle of the night, nagging at our unconscious, as if thinking about it more would make it go away. I’ve always dwelled in Matthew 6:34: “Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.” Each day seems to bring about new worries; or magnifies old ones that never seemed to get fully reconciled.This spring ha