It isn’t actually freezing out. This makes two days in a row! Could spring really be here? We did just “spring ahead” this past weekend. High school sports begin tryouts next week. I can see most of the ground now, even if it is quite muddy. We have had so much snow this winter! I have a feeling there will still be snow from some of those big, plowed piles until April. Do I dare put the winter jackets away yet? I have been able to leave the house in a sweatshirt for two days. I don’t want to put it all away and jinx us, but it certainly would be nice! As the weather improves and spring shows signs of arriving, how are you feeling? It dawns on me as an adult that I hibernate, as it now feels as if I am coming out of my cave to see the light. And the light feels so great! Do you also feel like you are waking up?
As I was taking a walk this morning, I began to think about waking up and all the ways we truly do wake up in our lives. We wake up to each new day (thank God). We wake up coming out of toxic relationships. We wake up leaving a job. We wake up when we meet new people, when we learn we are having a child, or when we lose a loved one. There are endless ways we wake up throughout our lives. Waking up is generally not something we control. The same way our bodies awake at sometimes ungodly hours, life can also come our way with events, people, and experiences that force us to also wake up. Sometimes what causes us to wake up can be wonderful and, other times, it can downright suck. Either way, change, like the seasons, is inevitable.
As I wake up from this long, cold, snowy winter, I reflect on the other areas of my life that need a little waking up as well. It’s time for a new year revival. What were your goals? What was on the vision board? What were the resolutions, the promises you made to yourself? Spring brings a sense of renewal. Maybe it is time to renew our promises to ourselves. I decided this year to write and to speak more. Here I am, at the computer throwing my own thoughts out to the world once again. I decided to take back my health from the perils of peri-menopause. Anyone else? That is a whole different post for another day! I decided to take each day one at a time and to live intentionally with joy. Let’s explore this last goal.
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