Life is a strange and awesome energy.  Its power defies our imagination.  The seed which springs forth from the ground into a living plant is one of nature's marvelous miracles.  Plants which lie dormant in the winter, bud in the spring, produce fruit in the summer and yield their harvest in fall are a reminder of life's cycle of power.  How strange that life emerges from an assortment of eggs, wombs and seeds.  Yet volumes have been written by those who have studied the amazing realities of orgins and species.  Life from its simplest to its most complex forms points to a power beyond itself.

One of our most obvious truths is that life is not an invention of human ingenuity.  We merely cooperate with the process.  We observe its intricate mysteries, Our major contribution is to protect, appreciate and celebrate life with its many possibilities.  In multiple ways all life is interwoven into a oneness.  It is a oneness of survival and purpose.  All living things have an innate capacity to endure.  There is a reason for every plant and animal.  Nothing escapes the attention of our Creator God in terms of His intentional will for everything He has created.

Because human life is spiritual as well as physical, inner growth is possible.  Within the human psyche there are Godly needs which require divine cultivation.  We long for the Creator God to create and recreate within us new dreams, hopes and aspirations for all that we are capable of becoming.  At best we are unfinished creatures longing for that which makes us complete.  We are challenged by the unknown, stimulated by the mysterious and fulfilled by learning.  There is a part of us which surpasses our animal instincts and finds satisfaction in communion with God.

Of course there is always tension between the human and the divine.  We are never as good as we hope to be and for that reason we pray and worship.  We reach out to Him who is the energy of all life to equip us for the living of our days.  Just as there are seasons within the cycle of nature there are seasons of the soul within the cycle of spiritual growth.  Our most pertinent prayer is for the winds of God's spirit to blow away the deadness of winter"s carnality and allow the blossoms of new life to usher in a springtime for our souls.  So might it be in this season of hope and possibility.