It is a most glorious "teaser" of a day with beautiful bright sunshine & wispy clouds stretched across an azure colored sky. The kind of day one would love to go for a leisurely walk and just enjoy the balminess of a coming Spring.
The Jonquils are in bright formation across the garden bed & the large Daffodils dance gently to the soft breezes as I walk around our back yard.
Ah Yes, Spring...I can feel it in these old bones of mine. My mind says I am 35 but my body says 82. LOL I am glad God let something feel young in me. I tell you ...youth is basically wasted on the young for it is when you reach your 60's and beyond that you wish for all the exuberance of being young, alive and filled with the wonder that is all around you.
By the time you have an empty nest, a little extra money that isn't taken for DR. bills and some spare time to go or do things, you find that your body has somewhat betrayed you & the ability to just get up and go for an extended time has basically gone. This is why I vote for a season of at least a week every year where we can not only feel at our optimum best but be that as well. I am glad for all that has been given to me in life, that is for sure...but I truly do miss being able to walk without feeling like I need to take a can of WD-40 along to stop the sound of creaking noises as my joints try to propel me forward.
I noticed the sun is higher in the sky now and the bushes and shrubs are starting to leaf out for their beautiful flowering stage. Everything seems to strain at the need to be free from a dormant period including me.
Ahhhh Yessss, to be young, carefree and physically fit is indeed a dream but only for the plant life I am afraid, for these old bones are groaning, the flesh is sagging in places but in my mind's eye, I am only thirty-five.
© Ann Marie Fisher
March 2008
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1Peter 1: 24, 25
For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass.
The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:
But the word of the LORD endureth for ever. And this is the word
which by the gospel is preached unto you.
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Proverbs 17: 22
A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit
drieth the bones.
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