I love springtime! There is an energizing joy of the anticipation of blooming tulips. I check ours almost daily as they miraculously push through the earth and mulch. Yesterday I "discovered" this poem/prayer:
Astonished and Amazed
like tulips long lying hidden
suddenly springing forth
making beauty out of sunlight
like soil caught and turned
warm, moist, and ready for seed
opening its heart for growing
like spring speaking to the day
about the goodness of the earth
patterning green on every plain
like trickles of raindrops
smoothing earth's rough edges
healing hardened hillsides
like all those quiet miracles
so is the coming of the Holy Spirit
telling of the surge of life
urging me to gaze again
upon my very common days
to look within and be amazed
-- Joyce Rupp
out of the ordinary, p 201
I really like the last phrase....to look upon my very common day...look within and be amazed. Sounds so easy and timeless, but in reality much easier to not slow down enough and silence enough to do the most simple action. Thx--Rita
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