It was in the 50's this afternoon and I ventured out for a 20-minute walk that turned into a 60-minute hike because I simply could NOT go inside on such a gorgeous day as this! How LONG have I waited to see … bare ground??!!
It's been a Narnia-type of winter in West Michigan this year where it has threatened to be "always winter and NEVER Christmas" … but I think the severity of our winter will just make spring all the sweeter this year.
"And now the snow was really melting in earnest and patches of green grass were beginning to appear in every direction. Unless you had looked at a world of snow as long as Edmund had been looking at it, you will hardly be able to imagine what a relief those green patches were after the endless white." ("The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe," by CS Lewis).
"Then came a sound even more delicious than the sound of water. Close beside the path they were following a bird suddenly chirped from the branch of a tree. It was answered by the chuckle of another bird a little further off. And then, as if that had been a signal, there was chattering and chirruping in every direction, and then a moment of full song, and within five minutes the whole wood was ringing with birds' music . . . " ("The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe," by CS Lewis).
That paragraph describes this evening exactly! Thank you so much, Mr. Lewis! It was truly wonderful. I'm so thankful that every single year, spring WINS out over winter, aren't you?!!
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