May: Season of Newness

"Consult not your fears, but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential" - Pope John XXIII

Look up and see! See the blossoms, apple, peach, and pear — would you ever have imagined this wonder looking at the bare trees a month ago?

Look up and see! See the trees of all varieties bursting forth with buds and new-formed leaves. Who would have believed there could be so many shades of green!

Look up and see! Spring breezes blow sweetly around us, God’s Spirit blows gently within us. Insistently, the Spirit calls us forth, each one of us, to spread new and wonderful life to the people who share our part of creation. But we are not expected to do this alone. As God spoke through Isaiah so long ago:

See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?” - Isaiah 43:19