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April Showers of Blessings

The world is busting out in life as April reveals herself. Hope is seen everywhere as bulbs planted last fall push their way through the chilly earth to greet the sun.

Hope and life are the two main themes at this time of year for those of us who follow an Earth based religion as well as our Christian family and neighbors. There is an amazing energy of love that cannot be contained within one belief system. The power of growth and warmth infuses not only the plants and earth, but each of us as well.

It is the time to push through our own darkness of the winter and reach for the healing light of Father Sun – a time to be “born anew”. The painted egg symbolizes the beauty awaiting us once we break out of the darkness. The birth of lambs and rabbits as well as chicks fills us with tenderness. Tenderness we need to give to ourselves as we, too, are wobbly and drowsy coming out of winter’s slumber.

We fill our house with the children’s stuffed animals.  Little lambs, chicks, ducks, and a baby deer pile on fireplace hearths, shelves, tables and baskets. Tissue paper blossoms hang from the seasonal branch over the kitchen table.  Dyeing eggs and making works of art on blown eggs are just as appropriate for our families as those of other beliefs.
Windsocks made of vines twisted into a circle and then crepe paper streamers tied around are fun to make as well as bubble wands made of chenille sticks. To blow bubbles is an amazing way to calm our kids or ourselves. And it is beautiful the way they dance away from us. Hopes and blessings can be blown into the bubble and then released to manifest in the highest good for all concerned.

We all join together and begin the season of light and growth, of hope and life. Breathe deep the sweet air and keep your face toward the sun.