The cycle of winter is slowly leaving us this year. It still likes to provide us with parting shots- a little snow a little sleet, frost on the ground cool crisp air and some colder days. But we look forward to winter moving on and being replaced by spring weather, spring birds returning and hints of the green grass and trees that are yet to come. We might talk about the temperatures of the winter or the amount of snow that fell but we really do want to move on and experiences the delights of spring. This should be the way of our emotional experiences, but some seem unable to let go and nurture past moments of darkness and hurt and pain. Rather than look for the evidence of spring and the great thaw, evidence that the past has left us, they instead hold on to the suffering of their winter and relive it.
We are designed to move on- in doing so we grow and develop our own new shoots of green. The old dies away to be replaced by something fresh but unless we let go of focus on the winter scarring, we will fail to notice how we have grown, how we have become more than what we were and the beauty that we are now.

Gwendolyn Villebrun