Weekly Pause and Ponder

A Sleeping World Emerges

A sleeping world emerges to new possibilities,

weakening winter’s icy grip,

 and birdsong and bleating lamb

announce to all the promise

that in due season

creation bursts into life.

And whilst leaves that fell in winter

lie upon the ground,

soon to feed the earth,

in nature’s wondrous cycle

of death and rebirth,

within the tree is a stirring of new growth.