Praise God, it's Springtime and all will become lush and green and revive our hearts and souls. I need spring to refresh and see all things new again. I believe that God created the seasons to help us understand the season's of our own lives. Even here in Florida, all be it a sutler transition from season to season and it may mean different things to different people, but we need these changes. For me each change is precious and renewing to my soul. While the autumn leaves may fall, it is the crispness of the wind through the trees that calls me to inhale life and all it's goodness and exhale all my stress and frustration. If I am fortunate enough to make a trip north in mid October there awaits breath taking landscapes over ever bluff exploding with color. On a few occasions I have had the opportunity to experience winter with blankets of snow glittering in the moonlight. No snow in Florida, but each season brings it own reward.
I am as corny as they come, planting plants, babying them, watching them mature, producing beautiful flowers and sometimes a tasty treat. I grow pineapples, avocados, tangerines and sometimes I will even plant some seasonal vegetables. I love my flowering plants. I favor planting perennials over the seasonal due to cost and my physical handicapp. While I may pay more for the plant, hopefully it will provide years of enjoyment. I enjoy spending time in my garden, especially when there is butterflies fliting around. My yard and garden has got away from this last several months, my hedges are 7 feet high and the weed population seems to be choking out some of my beloved flowering plants. Hopefully I will be able to get it back undercontrol as I find peace there and a great place to talk to my maker.
I speak of these things in my on going effort to be more positive in my life. So much of the time I feel like I am an 18 wheeler dump truck, loaded to the brim coming in dumping my garbage all over the place. I seem to skip from one crisis to the next, and not things that I have brought upon myself, just life. Oh, I have made some real dumb decisions in my life which cause it's own drama, but I take responsibility for those things. I am talking about real life drama beyond our control, tragic loss of love ones, seriously ill family members, lost love and emence personal struggles. Things that are uncomprehendable seem to weigh a person down and it is only by the grace of God that we survive. While I know that I am not alone, it is still very lonely.
