Every year, I am more and more impressed with the range of Mother Nature’s expressive voice.

Through every season, she sings different songs, and if we listen closely, those songs can inform the cycles of our soul’s internal seasons we move through in life.

In winter, Mother Nature is silent. Only those with eyes to see and ears to hear can recognize her in the barren landscape with its cold and snow, while everything else hibernates and rests.

Just as nature grows quiet in the winter, so is it a cosmically blessed opportunity for our souls to be still and listen for the gentle guidance of the Holy One in our toned-down lives.

In spring, her maiden voice incarnates in the new buds opening into blossoms, and new life born in the animal kingdom. As the season progresses, the world comes

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