The onset of Spring

If there is one really spectacular thing I enjoy about living in Utah it is the change of seasons. We not only get triple digits in the summer, we easily go to zero in the winter. I enjoy the diversity of our seasons and weather...it makes it fun!

Now that we have been living on the farm for a couple of years, I find myself enjoying the natural rhythm of the seasons. Winter time is when God puts a blanket over the Earth tucking it in for a while of rest and we spend time indoors playing games with the kids, making hot cocoa and going sledding. It's a time of recharging the batteries, catching up on office work and preparing for the coming Spring.

The other day I had the opportunity to walk through our pastures with the kids. We just held hands and walked around looking at the fences that need repair and spending some time squatting down by the tufts of grass looking for a touch of green. Spring is nearly upon us and the grass knows it. This is one of the times I really enjoy...I appreciate being able to see God's amazing hand not only in the large miracles of creation around us, but there, in a tuft of orchard grass in my pasture, way down in the middle by the dirt and mud and animal scat, the grass knows Spring is coming. The grass is starting to turn green with chlorophyll and begin to awaken from Winter and start to make food for itself which in turn will feed our animals which will eventually feed us.

Some days it is too easy to just stomp on that piece of grass and keep moving, but we all need to take a moment and pause and enjoy the wonder of one green strand.