"The Blossoms of Faith"
Isn’t it wonderful to wake up with the glint of morning sunshine from your bedroom window? I am very excited for this year’s spring time, probably because it signals my busy months ahead.

I can only look forward with enthusiasm to even busier days off. Probably as beautiful as springtime is! Spring is the time of the year when people think of too many things that relates to welcoming a new beginning: spring cleaning, tax preparation, diet & exercise, gardening, planning for a trip, home renovation, and many exciting things we do.

In our long cold winter months of hibernation at last spring is here! Spring signals us that a new life has begun, for me it’s a rebirth of the world; it opens up a window of clear vast sky, spectacular array of colours of flowers in the field. Even the dandelions today shows off her dancing flowers, in a warm and cheerful day; the geese in the park laid their eggs waiting for the off springs to hatch soon. We can’t wait to dig the dirt in our backyards and set our favorite flowers, vines, bushes and sometimes our favorite trees.

Spring is the time for cleaning, maybe getting ready for the yearly garage sale and sometimes we can’t keep our feet off to the flea market to find some interesting stuff, perhaps treasures!

We are also reminded that this season is the time for reflection to begin a new year; fresh and rejuvenated. To clean not only outside and to get rid of all our junks but this season is the season to clean inside us and to revive our relationship with our creator; then it extends to our family, our friends in and out of our lives and so on…

Maybe this is the time also to go ahead of our plans that has been shelved for a while; mercy works, volunteering our hours for the Habitat for Humanity, visiting the sick, the aged, the prisons, or perhaps even just a simple “smile” and a “hello” to our neighbors, to the person walking by with a dog, a mom pushing a stroller with a baby, an old couple walking, and many more. Isn’t it a good feeling? Or perchance we don’t even need to do grandiose things. What we simply don’t know is; what the other person may have been going thru. "YOU" can make a difference! Count your blessings as we are lucky to see our world full of vibrant colours and not just black & white!

Don't be afraid of anything. Just as Jesus taught me, to treat my enemy with meekness, gentleness, kindness and love. For me this is what the spring is all about, it has brought me the blossoms of Faith.