[blockquote source=”Marty Rubin”]The deep roots never doubt spring will come.[/blockquote]

The air was cold and brisk this morning – a stark contrast to yesterday’s ‘balmy’ 60°. And though I’ve been feeling just a bit unwell, as of late…I knew my dear friend Spring was finally here to greet me.

She was there in the brown turning gently to a paler shade of green…

And ‘o’er the crests of trees and drying dew’…

She was there in the bits of broken ice against the stream…whisked away in the arms of a dancing stranger.

In those swirls of steam rising up from my mug….to these dampened bricks beneath my feet;

And, in every other instance of this earth’s waking up – my dears, she was right there, waiting to greet me, too.

As I stood there reflecting over this past year, I couldn’t believe just how very much my life has changed. And, always for the best. Oh, sure, there were challenges along the way; brick walls casting shadows over my resolve.

But, even in the darkness I grew.

Sometimes I wonder, were it not for these moments of contrast – would I have ever even noticed, at all?

That’s why, when the opportunity finally presents itself to us – sick or not, we must step forward to receive it.

To embrace the subtlety of our changes, carries with it an awareness unlike any ever felt before…

Some call this wisdom, an enlightenment of sorts – I call this, finally waking up.

So, you see, my dears in the end there will be just one question left to answer –

That is, are you certain you’ve lived the life you’ve always wished for?

Stepping into the contrast of these changes, my dears – will grant you the insight you’ve been looking for.