For the most part, we have had an unseasonably warm spring this year. I keep thinking it’s summer. BUT, I think there are some important things to reflect on in each season, before rushing off to the next season (this is true in life too). Spring has always been a hopeful season for me, especially with the long, cold winters we often get in Canada. There are times when winter keeps going and going that you feel like you want to give up. Give up at what? I don’t even know, but there is certainly some endurance necessary when it comes to winter. But then.. there’s sweet, sweet spring. Birds happily chirping, warm breezes, longer evenings to sit outside. There’s that certain smell in the air.. fresh grass, lively trees, fragrant blossoms. Spring is rich with abundance and rich with life. And that’s because of all the seeds that were dropped by the dying plants in the fall and winter. The dying plants maybe didn’t look very hopeful at the time, but they contain within them the harvest. God always promises a harvest wherever we plant seeds in our lives. It is a law He created that will always endure. Seed. Time. Harvest.

In our art there is a spring time. There is a time of sweetness, when everything comes easy, and when beauty abounds. And that is because some things had to die and some seeds had to be planted. Mindsets that were holding us had to die. Perfectionism had to die. Self doubt had to die. And time, practice, investing in supplies, investing in education all had to be planted. And then comes that sweet creative flow. What season do you feel like you are in?

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