April Shower

April showers

Bring May flowers ... 

A drop of water

To reflect the sky

Settling in the ground

To give refreshment

April showers

Bring May flowers.

No April Showers Today

The May flowers have arrived!

The colors of the world are intertwined.   We think of the bright orange sun as it rises and sets!

Here it is shining through the tulips.

Yellow is such a spring color ... considered fresh and clean.

Green a color of life

Leaves on trees, buds appearing the on the limbs after a long winters time

Thanks be to God that she made this gorgeous rainbow offering

Thanks be to God that I am able to capture them in my mind.

Go out ... find the colors of spring!

Look all around you

Walk 10 steps .... 

Stop

Look up ... look down ... 

Look all around

Glory!

Come Sit A Spell

Its a glorious day ... 

Sit a spill

Let it simmer

Let it grow

Life needs time

Yes, come sit a spell

Life needs you 

Stop a bit

When feeling overwhelmed by life

Sometimes it helps to just stop

Look at the beauty

The season of daffodils 

Really is quite short

Everything else

Will be there tomorrow

Quiet Reflection

In the quiet of the early morning 

when all is still except the gentle breezes

Take a few minutes to reflect on the beauty 

which is here

in the present

Defining the Path

Listening with a third ear to a commercial I heard the following:

"whatever the destination"

"let ... help you choose the path"

Are we really letting others define our paths? Is the outcome financial security? Is the outcome stuff? With these as our messages no wonder we feel like we are on a treadmill .... because according to media we can never have too much. We are forever in a state of consumption and having more. 

At the same time we say we don't have enough time.  Have you ever noticed how much time it takes to consume stuff?  Recently I calculated the amount of time I spent buying/returning something I didn't need then wondered what I could do with that time instead.  

Who influences the path you are one?  

Does the path you are on take you in circles?

On this Sunday as we gather around the table in love, forgiveness, and grace, we are fed once again for the journey. 

 

Journey

So much of the focus of life is on the doing, getting things done, being here, being there.  What did you do last week?  What are you doing this weekend?  What is scheduled next week?  The rush from place to place, from activity to activity.  But it is in the journey that we deepen our relationships ... with others, ourselves and with God.  It is the journey that gives us depth that makes us who we are.  The Israelites journeyed ... Christ journeyed ... our ancestors journeyed.   

Let us slow down, do less, journey more. 

Today ... absorb the journey