You know the old saying, “In like a lion and out like a lamb.” This usually refers to the month of March. Winter is in full force at the beginning of the month and then on March 20th, we’re supposed to be in spring. How many times have we had below freezing temps in March and even in April?

Weather changes can be discouraging. We get our yards pretty with spring flowers, see green grass budding, put out our spring decorations and then brrr—28°hits us! We rush out to cover our plants to protect them from the freeze, watch the green budding grass brown over from the frost, and then we stay indoors another week or so. We will repeat this many times over the month of March. Just like in our spiritual life, we have these “freezes” that make us back up and have to regroup. We cover our spirit in prayers to protect it from the bad, we watch new growth go stale, and we pull back into a place to sit in the quiet.

“While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease. “ Gen 8:22

Eventually, spring does come. The temperatures warm, the flowers bloom, and the grass grows. That process of growth takes over and becomes the most beautiful time in our year. Just as in nature, we should allow our spirit to go into the quiet and regroup. This is when the true growth happens and the fruits of that will bloom just like the spring and become the most beautiful part of our spiritual growth.

Marcia Horn,

Director of Recreation Ministry