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Green leaf – Hope
I love the green leaf, fresh unfurling just outside my window. Hope, it breathes. Green, it comes again. Always again.
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No matter the bitter, chilled, frozen winter. Life lives after death. Death so frigid, steals our breath, knocks us down. Life forever changed.
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And yet, against all hope; hope audaciously calls. It beckons, as a warm sun, green buds and blossoming flower. Life dares, spring speaks, hope sings.
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God, He carves out Hope for us in Spring, in Earth’s Resurrection.
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Those we have lost, one day we’ll see again. Thinking of my family today; those who have gone on ahead of us – Dad, Mom, Elisabeth and Seana.