Spring

    Warm air is finally here along with rain and wind, but no more snow is in sight.  Crocus are blooming with bursts of yellow and purple and blue, giving me hope that life is beginning anew.  Even though parts of life end, spring always encourages me that new life begins every year, and it can be the same for me.  No matter how hard it gets, there is hope for the future.  Sometimes all it takes is a good nights rest.  Other times healing and renewal take weeks.
     For me it has been two years.  Two years of healing, and it is not done yet.  Two years of struggling, physical therapy, emotional highs and lows, lots of tears and pain.  Friends and family have thankfully been a great support, but I want to be well and whole again.  Able to walk with no pain, run a race, and ride into the sunset.  But I have hope, as spring is in the air, and new life is bursting forth.