This weekend my husband and I took off to enjoy the beauty of the mountains in a cabin where we could "veg-out," sleep in, and listen to the words of modern-day Prophets (speakers at the semi-annual Latter-Day Saint General Conference that teach principles for our day). Upon arriving we were surrounded by steep cliffs, boulders, snow-covered switchbacks, a flock of wild turkeys, and barren trees not yet showing the first buds of spring.
As I think upon the coming spring and Easter season, I reflect on the process and growth involved of nature's beauty. Roots extend, branches unfold, and leaves grow, facilitated by Living Water. Buds soon turn to leaves of smoothly rounded edges, leaves of prickles and thorns, tattered leaves, healthy leaves, and leaves of scent; no one leaf is like the others, given careful consideration by the Creator, and each leaf is nourished by surrounding elements of Love. Some leaves are bigger, smaller, brighter, or more intricate, but the Source of Light from which each leaf is granted life, looks not to compare, but sees beauty in them all; light penetrates all leaves regardless of size or difference, providing The Way for true growth and progression.
Christ is that Light from which all of us stem; He is our Creator, our Redeemer, our Savior, our Exemplar, our Brother, and our Friend. He loves each of us as no respecter of persons and he knows how to succor our needs regardless of our circumstances. Budding leaves, new flowers, green grass, rainbows, and many other beautiful signs of Spring would all be for not if it weren't for the "the way, the truth, and the Light" from which they thrive.
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