This morning a male cardinal was singing from the top of a big old oak in our woods, about 15 minutes before sunrise.
This, for me, is the real harbinger of Spring. He starts singing a few weeks before the robins get here. Robins are considered by many to be a harbinger of Spring, also.
This cardinal lifted my spirits. His song represents an inevitability, evidence of the certainty of life’s rhythms, nature’s turning of the wheel of the seasons.
There is still over 2 feet of snow in our woods. The cardinals have been silent all winter, and this morning, the song rang out.
I give thanks for the grace to be aware of these signs, and of the predictable force of nature moving forward.
As the wheel of life turns, so do my own rhythms and energies. I am ready for a new beginning.
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