The land is awakening indeed, and as of today the lusty March winds have yawned half the month awake.  The arrival of the vernal equinox is only 5 days away, and what it brings in the following weeks and months will add other levels to the enormous sense of the sacredness in my garden.  There are simply no words to explain how the scents and sights of my yard in the springtime nurture my spirit or how palpable the feeling that God is near becomes within its confines.  Since recent months have unveiled loss of life and/or illness for dear friends, I desperately need these glimpses of Eden to remind me that God is still on the throne, He does perform miracles, and that now, as always, goodness is at the very core of Creation.  Man may have fallen on that fateful day in Eden, but nothing can stop the good in what the Lord declared, made, and ordained.

Awake, north wind, and come, south wind!  Blow on my garden, that its fragrance may spread everywhere.  Let my beloved come into his garden and taste its choice fruits.  ~Song of Solomon 4:16