Cycles: Spring and the Message of the Season

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As we cycle from winter to spring, the weather here this year is reluctant to go from snowy to sunshine.  People will say it’s global warming or that it’s just an unusual season, or that spring is right around the corner, we just need to be patient.  Then there’s nature herself – what lesson is she laying down that we are failing to pick up this year?  It might be one of patience or accepting the unusual once in a while, or that interconnected systems have an effect on each other, and our impact on the earth is changing her slowly but surely.

It might also be this: nothing is a given.  Just because spring came at a certain time last year, doesn’t mean it’s coming at the same time this year.  The cycles of the seasons are not fixed in any way, just as everything in nature is ever-changing, from the dirt we plant trees in to the mosquitos that seem to grow stronger each year no matter how much we try to keep the population down.

Nature helps us understand cycles in life, and in death. Because we are no longer at her mercy (mostly – extreme weather being the exception) we have lost the message somewhere along the line.  Nature not only thrives in cycles, but also in predator eating prey, seed growing to tree and burning to ash, land being built by the ocean, and slowly eroded away with the tide.  Some cycles are longer or shorter, and some seem to thrive in chaos, while others move and grow slowly and surely.

When spring does come, and it seems to be working its way around to it, what messages will you find in the changing cycle of the seasons?