Spring Comes, Slowly

April 14, 2012

Spring comes late here. Some days it seems excruciatingly late. I miss flowers and green but there is the promise of new life. Soon.

I've been focusing lately on appreciating right here and now. It's a discipline. Some days I'm good at doing it, some days I'm not.

I need to look forward, make plans. We've moving the end of next month. But I also need to live right now, in this moment. I need to find peace here. Cultivate joy. Celebrate the beauty.

There is so much goodness in my life everyday and I know I will look back on these as golden years so I don't want to rush any of it away. So I'm learning to be patient even as I wait for spring's fullness.

The kids have a lot to teach me this way. They are just so much more in the moment, still at 9, 11 and (almost) 13.

I have a lot to learn. So much to learn.

But I am trying to patient with this also. I have my whole life ahead of me. The same message I have been telling our children - you have a lifetime to learn. Guess what? That applies to me too.