Today is Easter! The Christian world is rejoicing and celebrating! Our Lord is resurrected and risen and has given us a great promise. He died so that we might live! That's the promise. And on this very special, most beautiful occasion, the sky is grey ... what's that about? Good Friday, okay. That's a day of great sadness for us mortals that can only see the suffering. Let it rain and be dark & dreary; it's fitting. But today should be full of sunshine and warmth, the skies should shine as should the rest of the world. ... In my humble opinion.
In the Christian religion, the new year (the church year) starts with Advent - at Christmas time. I see it differently. The new year (the rebirth) starts, for me, with the beginning of Spring ... the sun returns and brings its warmth, its the rebirth of the ground, many of the plants and trees start to blossom again, and its time again to plant those that don't return on their own, animals come out of hibernation and for others its the season for reproducing and continuing their species. We, who stand on two legs, feel the tug not only to get outside and join in the planting and renewal process but to clean, paint, redesign, out with the old / in with the new, inside as well as out.
Spring, like the Resurrection, is a time of promise! Enjoy! Rejoice! Happy New Year!!!
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