Spring Cleaning

Spring Cleaning

by Doris Lakey

Spring! When new life springs up in glorious Technicolor!

Tiny green buds bursting, reaching for the sky, wildflowers

sweeping across the prairies,  new lambs and baby chicks

stumbling to follow their mothers around, learning how to

behave by copying behavior of their elders.

Humans do that too. We try to copy behavior of others we

admire, until we learn we are unique individuals and can’t

successfully be other than who we are.

Who are we?  A creation by God in His own spiritual image,

designed to find happiness only in His presence. We too

stumble, wander, trying many experiences searching for our

destiny, our true Home, not knowing at first Who or what

we yearn for.

Spring is a time of renewal, new energy, a good time to clear

away cobwebs and dust we’ve allowed to settle into our minds

and hearts, building new spiritual growth, dumping bad habits

we have allowed to settle in comfortably during a winter, sitting

by the fire, watching  television.

Plant new seeds into your life during this growing season, study

your road map (the Bible), consult a tour guide (a church), let

the Holy Spirit nurture the sprouts and soon you will find new

growth blossoming in your heart, new fruit in your life. Maybe,

depending on where you are in your journey Home, you will

discover a new life.

For God so loved the world, that He gave His only

begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not

perish, but have eternal life. For God did not send the

Son into the world to judge the world, but that the

world might be saved through Him.

 John 3:16

And if I go to prepare a place for you, I will come

back again and receive you to myself, that where I

am, there you may be also.

John 14:3