THE SPRING RESURRECTION

Hokitika Guardian, 17 September 1929, Page 7

THE SPRING RESURRECTION

So much has been written about spring that it would seem there is little left to be said about this winsome season. Yet it always finds us ready to pour out our heartfelt thanks that we are alive to enjoy it. We sec life visibly released and we'are eye-witnesses to creation at work. We see the earth, so long drear in winter, touched with colour and greenness sweeping over the land. We see every blade off grass gleam silkily in the sun, every bush sending forth tender young shoots; indeed every growing thing seems to vie with its neighbour in the race to be the first to unfold its final glory of blossom to the sun and man. Not all the punishing winds or cold wet rains of winter can thwart this coming of the spring. All the tides of being are rolled into the flood. There seems a return of wildness that leaps at life like a hunting dog let loose from the leash. Every spacious or small spread of lawn, field, tree-covered hill and land that was so bare, is now vibrant with life. Through the fresh morning we move with a keen-eyed joy, alive to all that is going on around us. What we witness in this silent unspringing of garden, wayside and bush is reflected in the heart of man. TV e, too, are in the spring time blown upon by fresh winds. We take a new lease of life and feel invigorated to overcome any difficulty in our renewed strength. The marvellous spectacle of the busy spring works through the thoughts of m<sn and touches them to renewal. Out of the dust of the dead things cf a bleak winter we rise to a fuller life. As out of a stormy night we draw near to a light and warmth. Every gardener is busy weeding his plot, flight we, too, not turn gardeners and commence pulling but the .undesirable weens in ourselves in order that the plants of good humour, contentment, and understanding may have room to spread, grow hardily, and blossom profusely? Now there returns the revival of all our hopes. Tn our joy and gratefulness might we not resurrect and improve upon those resolves wo made at the New Year? Everything is coming to life; why not

revivify these, so that, like the plants in the garden, they may grow to bloom colourful!v and carry joy everywhere? —ELSIE G. EVANS, in the Auckland “ Star.”