Spring? Of course it is...

Wind, rain, sleet, and snow. This is Spring in Iowa, even if it is the middle of April. That might have been the start of my day but it wasn't the end. Did you see the beauty of the white snow and the green grass? Did you see the daffodils huddle in the cool weather? Did the lightning stir something deep within? The awakening of a new growing season is upon us. As always, I am not fully ready. Which really must mean by now that I am as ready as I will ever be.

Let me explain the end of the day and how that last sentence fits into it all. The day ended watching Warren sing in the Spring concert at school. I also was able to go out in the halls with Flora and talk to some people while the other grades were performing. After the kids were down for the night at home, I clicked on a link to a video of the stars, clouds, trees, and flowers from on top of the highest mountain in Spain. The piano music in the background was as moving as the images if not more so. I thought of my sister who is about to have some vertebrae fused in her lower back. I about told her to Let Go and Let God. Then I remembered that she really doesn't believe in God but more in a higher power. This lead me to think about Letting Go and Letting God. As a child I came to believe that you can ask God for anything. Be sure to ask for specific things and to make sure that you really want them to happen and that they are or will be truly good for everyone. Follow this by working toward achieving what you asked for because although God can do whatever God wants, God would like you to do it as well. Thus, you can not really Let Go and Let God. Rather, I believe that you should let go of unhealthy fear by finding the real problems and working on them. Asking for help all of the time from everyone. Helping everyone, anyone, or just someone all of the time. Be thankful for everything. Again, Be Thankful For Everything. The wind, rain, sleet, and snow on a cold day in mid April. Be thankful that you could see the snow, feel the cold, hear the rain and sleet, and experience the beauty of nature.

So, I am as ready as I will every be. I am not done yet. There is more learning to do and somehow, I feel, more teaching to do. Not yet, but sometime. I am looking forward to another moment, another day, another sense...