I don’t have a particular favorite season. I love how each season brings something that I enjoy. Summer brings lazy summer days and swimming days, fall brings leaves changing colors and cooler weather, and winter bring a warm hearth and hot chocolate.

Spring? 

Spring brings longer periods of sunshine. It brings flowers and warmth. It also brings my favorite holiday (Easter) and my birthday. I don’t know if it is my favorite season, because I don’t know if I have one. But I do love when it comes around. I think that’s one of the best parts of seasons, when it changes. It breaks up your routine. It is so easy to get into the hum-drum of things. Working at a school, I need to leave around 6:45 in the morning. There’s a simple delight in stepping out my door and being greeted by light instead of darkness. No longer dark, but light. 

Same goes for the evening. I am in the process of getting my clinical social work license and on some days, in the evening, I am doing therapy. Lately, it has been dark by the time I leave but when I began to notice it was getting lighter. It was a welcomed realization. It helps make me feel like I still have hours in the day to do things, that I don’t have to go straight home, get dinner, and go to sleep. 

It’s so easy to get stuck in a routine.

I wonder if that’s why God made seasons? To remind us to look up and to not be so stagnant. 

What am I looking forward to spring?

I am looking forward to Easter. A holiday that definitely broke us out of being too stagnant. With it being celebration that Jesus is risen and His blood washed away our sins. I am looking forward to the flowers. I live in Texas and wildflowers begin to bloom in March or April, depending on the year, and it is a common sight to see bluebonnets and painted indian flowers on the side of the highway. We have Ladybird Johnson to thank for that. If you ever visit Texas, come in April and visit the Ladybird Johnson Wildflower Center in Austin, Texas. You won’t be sorry. Haha, sorry, I could not resist shamelessly plugging in the wildflower center. On second thought, go and visit anywhere in Texas in the Spring and get your bluebonnets picture.

As I write about the flowers, I realized that spring is often symbolized with growth. Which is fitting that my birthday is in the spring. The past few years, I have often used my birthday as a time to reflect on my life in the past x years. On my twenty-first birthday, I remember writing down 21 people to pray for, 21 countries to pray for, and 21 things I was thankful for. Since then, I would do the same. I wouldn’t assign any number to it, but I would thank God for the people in my life. I would, also, dream of things I hope to do. 

What do I hope for this spring?

Reflecting on the growth that I have done and will do. That and getting my annual Texas bluebonnet photo.

Elizabeth