Spring around the corner?

The week has passed quite quickly. Yesterday afternoon I went to my last ever parents evening. Thankfully it was a really encouraging meeting. I felt very proud of my boy who has been through some tough times. It is up to him now - uni beckons. Our job as parents of a school pupil are nearly over. How life will change! This weekend he is off to Birmingahm to stay with Anna and we are home alone!
This weekend - all being well we are going to London with Josh and Debs. And I begin to reduce the steroids. Yesterday as well as going to parents evening I managed to go shopping. It was lovely to be out and about - although I did feel a bit bamboozled by everything around me.
I am aware how blessed I am - how much I have to be thankful for. It has been a hard few months but hopefully I am reaching the end of it. Just one last hurdle - the next lot of tablets which I will start at the beginning of March. Who could have guessed when I started the methotrexate, at the end of November, what a catalogue of difficulties that would start. I am looking forward to spring and getting out and about again. The bulbs peeping out of the soil, the signs of spring in the buds on the trees and the birds singing all point us towards change. New life all around.

In the bulb there is a flower; in the seed, an apple tree;

In cocoons, a hidden promise: butterflies will soon be free!

In the cold and snow of winter there’s a spring that waits to be,

Unrevealed until its season, something God alone can see.

There’s a song in every silence, seeking word and melody;

There’s a dawn in every darkness, bringing hope to you and me.

From the past will come the future; what it holds, a mystery,

Unrevealed until its season, something God alone can see.

In our end is our beginning; in our time, infinity;

In our doubt there is believing; in our life, eternity,

In our death, a resurrection; at the last, a victory,

Unrevealed until its season, something God alone can see.

 Natalie A Sleeth