Hmmm, can we find inspiration in a frigid winter day?
It is a wickedly cold winter day as I pen this post. The temperature dropped like a stone as high winds blew in a cold front overnight. A day to hunker down inside and read a good book.
As I take a break from reading and look out the window, I see the scarecrow outline of a tree swaying and pitching in the bitter wind. Withered leaves, which fell after the last fall cleanup, tumble and swirl and cartwheel past the tree paying it little heed.
The scarecrow tree is not dead but rather in its winter slumber. The leaves that cartwheel past it have expired but will in the fullness of time decay and fertilize the spring growth of springs yet to come. They hold life within them as much as the slumbering tree does.
It occurs to me that our lives inevitably pass through seasons of dormancy. Stepping back and withdrawing inward, weary of the trials and tribulations, to rest, recharge and gather strength for another season of growth and renewal.
The scarecrow tree and the cartwheeling leaves – a random act of metaphor for those times when we retreat and live to bloom anew on another day.
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