Joyfully Awaiting Spring

As we all anxiously await the spring, that March promised us, it is easy to become saddened when we wake to yet another chilly, gray day. Even worse, is when a co-worker or passerby tells you more snow is on the way. It’s the end of March! Where is spring!?!

Everyone you know is talking about the cold weather! “It’s the weather people’s fault!” She says, she is sick of the cold. He says, this up-and-down-weather is messing with his sinuses. Still others refuse to admit winter lingers, so once the temperature hits 50 degrees, they pull out their shorts and  refuse to go back! I guess they are just hoping their outfit will dictate the weather: “If you wear it, spring will come!”I know spring will come and then we will anxiously await summer and then the Holidays…

What are those moments like for you before a big life event? Before an anticipated vacation? I wake up and there is a moment I realize “this” (whatever “this” is) will happen today. In that moment, there is a peace and quiet in the certainty of knowing it will happen, but then that moment is burst by the thought “THERE IS SO MUCH TO DO BEFOREHAND”! And, suddenly I am up, my feet hit the ground and I’m running around making sure every little thing is set in motion, that the bags are packed, that I am wearing the right outfit (you know the weather will follow) and everyone else is doing what they need to be doing…

Whew! And then that moment is gone. And another moment comes: in the car as you leave for vacation or as you are walking into that big event. Maybe it is a deep breath, a ringing in your ears, an increased heart rate or the calm after the storm. Regardless that moment creeps in and I am acutely aware of what is about to happen. All that anticipation crescendos on this next moment…

I think this is where we are, right now. We are in the rushing-around, got-to-keep-moving time before spring. As I write this on one of these rainy, gray days, I am actually tickled by each of these thoughts. I am tickled because I am finding joy in this expectant waiting of, yes, more snow, but more so of the advent of spring.  Those warm, sunny, teasers of days are those moments we take a deep breath knowing spring is coming.

So slow down, don’t worry, I’m certain spring is coming. One of those moments will happen and spring will just be.