Winter's End: A Poem

All of creation is readying to awake with new life

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Spring is coming

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It’s almost spring here in Oklahoma. The changing of seasons is always a time of renewed hope for me. Around 6 a.m. every morning, a songbird sings outside our kitchen window. The texture of the light outside is beginning to change and day has begun overpowering night. We’ve entered into Lent and look with hope and anticipation to celebrating Christ’s victorious resurrection from the dead.

In the poem Winter’s End, I meditate on the beginning of spring as an image of the new creation - where winter and death have forever met their end.

Winter’s End

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Cold sleeping earth, pale and gray
As Potter’s vessel which lies in grave
Awaiting spring, awaiting new birth
To no longer in death remain

If shadows over creation are seen
Near still to us is springtime green
Which blooms at the eternal dawn
Where light and life reign supreme

No more must seeds fall to ground
To sleep and await the shout aloud
Of the Sower heralding winter's end
Awakening all who hear its sound

Are you ready for spring?

What do you look forward to the most about spring? Do you take part in any annual traditions or activities to usher in the new season?

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