Wonderful Spring has come on time in Michigan this year. Everyone bears the markings of it, a bigger smile on their face, and bit more enthusiasm for life, the readiness to throw off the old dreary and tired things and embrace new life, new challenges and the hope of the future. What a wonderful gift God gives us each year. It's a time to feel incredible thanksgiving for his creation, to appreciate it's magnificence once again, to enjoy the wonders of it. It's a time to feel hope about the future, to feel that sense that a new beginning lies ahead, just waiting for us to grab and take hold of it. It's a time when we want to throw open the windows of our lives, both literally and figuratively and feel alive and start anew, and express a song, put on those work clothes and tackle the task at hand.

I just wandered my garden and saw all the buds coming up, thankful that last year I did get those Tulips in the ground. My daughter and I have plans for a vegetable garden this year. New project, new addition to my life story. I've also spent a very consistent year working out with my sister and I've been able to do a little jogging. A year ago I would have said that's impossible. I'm mulling over the possibility of doing a 5k with her. New year, new me, new hope. Thank you God that the possibilities of life are new every morning, every season, every year.