Spring is the season of renewal when earth is awakening from the frigid grip of winter and putting on its gay colorings amid bright skies and bird song. This is the season when nature awakens to praise the creator and mortals look forward with hope and faith to the long, warm days of summer, when the fruits of the earth are coming to fruition and when the harvest hour with rich and plentiful provision is assured.
In a chapter entitled "The Fruit of Spirit" in her "Miscellaneous Writings" Mary Baker Eddy gives us the following exquisite description of springtide (p. 329): "Spring passes over mountain and meadow, waking up the world; weaving the wavy grass, nursing the timid spray, Stirring the soft breeze; rippling all nature in ceaseless flow, with 'breath all odor and cheek all bloom.'"
Our beloved Leader understood the poetry of language. The beauty of her prose is musical; indeed, it often ripples like music in the ear. But she never leaves us in a world of sensation or in the contemplation of sense satisfaction. Lifting thought into the realm of Spirit, she reveals the spiritual meaning of spring; and thus the heavens and earth become more beautiful and satisfying than ever before, and life is advanced to a new, glorious adventure.
