Deacon’s Message

The tulip and daffodil bulbs in our garden are starting to sprout. This week I read an email from my favourite rose grower saying that it’s time to think about pruning the roses for spring. The days are getting longer and it feels like the earth is beginning to wake from hibernation.

It’s been a very mild winter and that has felt very strange. It’s all too soon. As much as I love spring I don’t expect it to arrive before March. However, nature will do what nature will do.

For me planting bulbs is an act of faith. We plant them in the fall, just as we’re heading into the darkest and coldest part of the year. We plant them hoping that they will produce the first show of colour of the new year. Even as we prepare for the hibernation, we also prepare for new life. 

How are you making room for the new life that is already amongst us?