Welcome Spring

Welcome Spring to the year 2006. I’ve been anticipating your arrival this year just as I do every year. You know, of all Mother Nature’s seasons, I favor you the most. Don’t get me wrong, each season brings its own special gifts but yours are just so beautiful. You always bring new hope and new life. You bring glorious flowers and tiny new animals. Your colors are beyond description. The pastels of Spring are a welcomed vision.

Sadly Spring, we humans have nothing of beauty to offer you this year. Our world is drab with suffering and death. We are a bit out of sorts with so much of what is occurring around us. We welcome your pleasantness because we have little of our own. Where you bring greening into the world we can hardly see past the dark.

I’m sorry there is not as much space for you to spread your greening as there used to be. We have poured even more concrete in the spaces you once flowered. We have sprayed chemicals on your past gifts. The air isn’t as conducive for you to spread your beauty as it once was. The water carries poisons of its own. Seems each year we make it more and more difficult for you to work your magic and spread your wonders.

But, welcome Spring. We welcome whatever beauty you may share, whatever effort you might give us. We welcome you with open arms. Please forgive us for making your season, your task, your gifts and your beauty more difficult for you each year. Perhaps one year we will give something back to you. Something in the form of care and appreciation and respect for what you have given to us in the past.