As a rule, I don’t like winter. I prefer sunshine, warmth, and light to cold, snow, and darkness.
Therefore, I do a few things to pretend winter doesn’t exist. One of those things is to keep the waterfall in the pond outside my office window running, no matter how cold it is. This means that, on frozen mornings, someone has to put water into the pond to replace the water turned to ice on the rock formations around it.
The rewards of this effort are observations only possible during a winter season. My soul spoke these two verses to me recently.
Robins drinking from an almost frozen waterfall remind me that no matter how bleak it looks, provision is always made for me (and you!)
Waterfall into a frozen pond calls me to my window and reminds me I am one with all, gently returning to my source and free to do as I please in serving others.
Maybe winter isn’t so bad after all…