St Peters RC Church Hamilton

Nature already hard at work.

The days are lighter, brighter already.

With the best seasonal sights nature has to offer.

A spring time feast of flower colour,

In steady seasonal welcome arrivals well established. 

But also in nature everywhere, as spring

Brings forth not only beauty, but new life’s opportunity.

In many strands and strains of variety

The countryside is busy, well awakening.

Bluebells budding, lesser celandine, hazel catkins aloft,

With wild garlic whitening the woodland floor.

Fungi have been dying down, beneficially, nutritionally,

The sharp showers are penetrating the ground, growing greenery is found.

All of nature intends to flourish being God willed.

The dawn chorus is life stirring melodiously,

As light is dawning gradually, chasing night away. 

The male birds are staking their territory insistently, 

Whilst chirping merrily to invite a mate to date! 

The morning dawn chorus in its chirpy, chirping rhythm is glorious.

No cawing now in the calling, this tune is a far sweeter melody.

All of nature now springs to new life,

As God designed, leaving harsh winter strife behind. 

“Is anything too hard for the LORD?” (Genesis 18 v 14) the God of creativity.

No nothing whatsoever, nothing is an impossibility to the Creator.

From the spring delights of blossom and bloom,

Nature’s God given recovery is a determined work of beauty and glory,

From spring’s earliest pretty snowdrops, aconites and the dainty crocus cup. 

Life will look at a colourful array, day by energetic day.

Who does not enjoy March’s daffodil display,

 Or April’s amazing tulips and the azalea and rhododendron of May? 

But that is by no means the end of the story,

In fact will there ever be a finale?

No! Not as spring is clearly in the air!

Here, there, everywhere inviting us to enjoy the flowery beauty.