WQ - The Return of Spring

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I'm participating in the Wednesday Quotes link-up hosted by Marsha at Always Write. We all seem to have a bit of spring fever, and many are on spring break or looking forward to it. The weather, and specifically the season of spring, is what this week's prompt asked me to think about.

I don't know a lot about Seasonal Affective Disorder, or SAD, but I know that it's a real thing and a struggle for many. And I have certainly noticed that my own moods and emotions are influenced by the weather, to a certain extent. I'm more likely to feel tired, unmotivated, moody, and lacking energy when the weather is grey and rainy. I'm tempted to be gloomy when the weather is gloomy. But it's much easier to feel hopeful, happy, and upbeat on days that are sunny and warm and show signs of spring.

The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also. ~Harriet Ann Jacobs

Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems. ~Rainer Maria Rilke

Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush. ~Doug Larson

Well . . . I don't know about that. First of all, I've never been very good at whistling. And second, it is really uncomfortable to unexpectedly step in a cold or muddy puddle. Maybe ruin my shoe? No, I wouldn't be whistling if that happened.

It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade. ~Charles Dickens

Now that captures the season well, I think! 

But spring inspires hope and optimism in us. The return of longer days and warmer weather reminds us that summer is coming. Budding trees, blooming flowers, and singing birds all remind us that life goes on and we have much to be thankful for and to look forward to.

I am thankful that in a troubled world no calamity can prevent the return of spring. ~Helen Keller

For still there are so many things that I have never seen: in every wood in every spring there is a different green. ~J.R.R. Tolkien

Daffodils,

That come before the swallow dares, and take

The winds of March with beauty.

~William Shakespeare

In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love. ~Alfred Lord Tennyson

Spring inspires romance, after all! 

My beloved spoke and said to me, "Arise, my darling, my beautiful one, come with me. See! The winter is past; the rains are over and gone. Flowers appear on the earth; the season of singing has come, the cooing of doves is heard in our land. The fig tree forms its early fruit; the blossoming vines spread their fragrance. Arise, come, my darling; my beautiful one, come with me."

~Song of Songs 2:10-13~

Certainly the flowers and trees and birds can inspire thoughts of romance and new beginnings, but I think the reliable turn of the seasons also inspires us to hope and believe in lasting love and faithfulness too.

Even the rainy days that we expect in spring can bring hope, because we need the rains if we want our gardens to grow, and so it is in our lives as well.

So if you faithfully obey the commands I am giving you today―to love the LORD your God and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul―then I will send rain on your land in its season, both autumn and spring rains, so that you may gather in your grain, new wine and olive oil. I will provide grass in the fields for your cattle, and you will eat and be satisfied.

~Deuteronomy 11:13-15~

Let's strive to know the LORD.

His appearance is as sure as the dawn.

He will come to us like the rain,

like the spring showers that water the land.

~Hosea 6:3~

I stuck my head out the window this morning and spring kissed me bang in the face. ~ Langston Hughes

Wednesday Quotes 2024 is hosted by Marsha at Always Write. This post will be linked at #WQ #165: Weather/Spring Vernal Equinox

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