New Life

 

Original Photo by Cecilia Marie Pulliam

For the first time in over a week, I slept past 4 am. Energized, my mind whirled with plans until I opened the blinds. My thoughts stilled.

Lemon colored sunshine and sparkling dew bathed the hot pink phlox and emerald grass. Five pelicans glide through a cerulean sky. A chorus of birds sing from the cherry tree. It seems only yesterday the world was brown and gray and now it’s rippling with new life. I can’t tear my eyes away.

How many of us can ignore a beautiful sunrise or sunset? I believe they are God’s way of encouraging us to pause in our activities and thank Him for all of His gifts.

Clouds have now obscured the sun, but the bright spring colors are still there, shimmering in the gloom. Isn’t that what joy does, glistens in difficult circumstances, long after happiness flees?  

Thank you, Lord, for the gift of this new day, this new life. For aren’t we reborn each day? It’s a blank page and yet already filled with Your love, encouragement, and compassion. I can never give enough thanks, but I will offer all that I am. Amen.

New Life

Photo by Wellington @Pixabay

I posted this on social media three years ago during my recovery from mastectomy surgery. It seems as revelant now with all that life has thrown at me since, my dad's passing and all the changes the pandemic forced on us.

March 23, 2018

Spring. I see it emerging everywhere. Six deer grazed along our back lawn this morning. A slew of songbirds are singing their little hearts out from every tree and bush: blackbirds, robins, doves and others I need a book to identify. A pair of hawks are nesting close by and a pair of bald eagles performed an aerial courtship dance within view of our front window. Warm rains have encouraged buds on all the trees. Several are close to blooming.

My heart is encouraged. As nature is rebounding from winter, I will recover from this post-cancer surgery into a new life too. Each day is better than the one before, with fewer bumps. I am thankful for many things, especially life.