The signs are everywhere. The green buds on the barren branches. The yellow daffodils starting their annual bloom. The chirping of the birds greeting the sunrise.
Spring has sprung, leaving the cold and colorless winter behind.
Nature is a wise teacher, and Spring is one of its favorite lessons. Renewal and rebirth. My favorite lesson, though, is one often overlooked and rarely considered.
Intention.
Nature isn’t random. It doesn’t dabble. It creates with intention. Everything is uniquely purposeful, everything created to express itself fully. Every bud, every bug, every blade of grass fulfilling the intentional promise of its creation, significant and purposeful in their own unique way.
Nature reminds me that I am not random. I, too, was created with intention, with a unique purpose only I can express, a purpose intended to be expressed fully. Within us is the opportunity to fulfill the intentional promise of our own creation, significant and purposeful in our own unique way.
Sometimes we forget who we are and what we are here to become.
Nature is here to remind us.
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