a link to share: The winds of spring - Blogs - LivingLutheran.com

The winds of spring - Blogs - LivingLutheran.com

I especially liked these lines from this blog post by Christine Iverson:

"What of us? Are we ready to let the fresh air of the Holy Spirit blow through our house and change our lives? Can we make room for new life and new growth or will we hang on the brown and dormant old growth of times past?

"Change is never easy because like spring, we are not in control and we never know when and where the changes will happen and what the changes will be. About all that can be promised is that like spring, if we let the Spirit of God blow through, we will be amazed and surprised by God’s love and abundance.

"In 'The Voyage of the Dawn Treader,' by C.S. Lewis, Lucy asks the lion Aslan (the Christ figure in the series 'The Chronicles of Narnia') why didn’t things happen the way they did before. Aslan answers that things never happen the same way twice. We have to learn and we have to trust in God. The Pentecost of Spring invites us to let God blow through our lives and breathe in the promise of new life and always the abundance of God’s love."