as i've been observing the fading out of winter into spring this year, i've found myself contemplating on the grass at various points. at first, as i mentioned in another blog, i found myself gazing upon the dead, deep-freeze-attacked grass. it was all brown and boring and kind of yucky, but i was still pretty excited to see it because it meant the snow was receding. in the last few weeks i've noticed that the grass was starting to turn green! it's alive again!! i guess april showers really do bring some spring colors! but, as i thought about it, i realized that i started seeing green grass before we had any showers. and that got me thinking.
that grass was crushed all winter under the excruciating weight of the snow that seemed to be EVERYWHERE and lasted seemingly FOREVER. if i was grass, i would've been pretty angry with the snow! i mean, that snow made it so the grass couldn't get sunlight and it was so cold that the ground was frozen and couldn't get any water! that's mean. i bet the grass felt like it was a pretty unbearable thing that they had to endure with all that snow sitting on top of them and smushing them flat. i'm pretty sure the grass couldn't see how that situation could be anything but bad.
BUT. as the temperatures began to rise, the snow began to melt and the grass was visible again. and this is the part that i realized recently - not only was the snow melting away, but it was nourishing the grass with water again at the same time! the very cause of the grass's death (or hibernation or whatever grass does :) in the first place became the very thing that made it strong again...maybe even stronger than before! (more resistant to lawn mower blades perhaps! :)
this made me think of life - i know i've been in plenty of situations that i thought were less than wonderful and i didn't have the foresight to realize how those situations could actually be of good to me in the future and leave me a stronger, better blade of grass...oops i mean person :) it's hard to be in a bad spot like that and to see what the benefits will be, but i hope that everyone is able to look back and see that, as undesirable as the trial may have been - and sometimes even of one's own causing, good things came as a result of working through it, being patient, and persevering. maybe the snow isn't so bad after all!!
