The music stirred my heart
and awakened my mind. A blue jay sends out a mating call; a response from a
searching mate. The rites of spring had, finally, begun. Chickadees doing a
home inspection on one of our backyard birdhouses, making a place for new life
to live. The rising sun’s warmth fills my living, the light which will melt the
snow and bring forth the snow-pea. Something new, but something as old as
the earth, is happening.
Holy Spirit,
giving life to all,
moving all creatures,
root of all things,
washing them clean,
wiping away their
mistakes,
healing their wounds,
you are our true life
luminous, wonderful,
awakening the heart
from its ancient sleep. (Hildegard of
Bingen, translated by Stephen Mitchell, from “inward/outward”)
“Our Lord has written the
promise of the resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf of
spring-time.” (Martin Luther) And in every heart today is stirring new hope.
Some new thing is happening to you today, do you not perceive it?
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