Pause for Prayer: THURSDAY 3/20

It's the first day of Spring! Also known as the vernal equinox, the spring equinox marks one of the two instances each year when our sun and the Earth's equator align. The spring equinox always falls on March 20 or 21 (occasionally on March 19 in a leap year).

We trust the signs of spring around us, that give us hope as we leave winter behind.  We expect the fulfillment of what is promised.  We hope in the beauty that waits, wrapped so tightly, until spring rains and the sun's warmth open and reveal what's hidden within.

Here are some "starters" for prayer this morning...

What signs of promise and hope are "budding" 

in my desire for more than what I have right now?

What moments of strength are budding in my heart
with courage to act, to hope, to dream again?

When winter weighs on me, 

do I look for those buds?  
do I hope to find them? 

do I expect to find them?

 

Even when I'm wrapped tightly 

in the folds of worry and fear,
God waits to open me, 

to reveal what's within me,
to draw forth more from me 

than I could ever dream of...

When I find buds of hope in my life,
do I trust God to bring them to blossom?

When spring stirs in my heart,
do I trust God to work within me,  

heart and soul, mind and body,
to bring forth the goodness, the truth, 

the best of who I am?

 

Lifting my face to the light of God's love
and my life to the dew of the Lord's anointing,
who knows what might spring to life within me,
how God might renew me

and refresh my trust and hope?

 

Where there are buds 

there is beauty waiting to bloom 

in my yard, in my hope, in my heart...

 

It's the first day of spring 

and as surely as nature stirs 

in the still chilled earth
so does the Lord stir within me
with the promise and pledge

of new life...

 Amen.

First Day of Spring by Secret Garden

 

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