As the E.B. White watched his wife Katherine planning the planting of bulbs in her garden in the last autumn of her life, he wrote, “there was some thing comical yet touching in her bedraggled appearance...the small hunched-over figure, her studied absorption in the...
God’s one and only job description is to turn death into life. That’s what God does with every new springtime, every new life, every new season, every new anything.
There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature –– the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after the winter.
Few things are more inspiring than to see a person standing in someone’s winter, helping them believe in a better springtime to come… from Christianity Crocus-Style
So the church announced a season of Lent, from the old English word lenten, meaning “spring”—not only a reference to the season before Easter, but also an invitation to a springtime for the soul. Forty days to cleanse the system and open the eyes to what remains when...
Wrong will be right, when Aslan comes in sight; At the sound of his roar, sorrows will be no more; When he bares his teeth, winter meets its death; And when he shakes his mane, we shall have spring again. from The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe