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April 23rd.
2008
St. George's Day
WHEAT RISING GREEN
WHEN OUR HEARTS ARE WINTRY, GRIEVING
OR IN PAIN, YOUR TOUCH CAN CALL US BACK TO LIFE AGAIN, FIELDS OF OUR
HEARTS THAT DEAD AND BARE HAVE BEEN; LOVE IS COME AGAIN LIKE WHEAT
RISING GREEN. John M. C. Crum 1872-1958 Oxford Books of Carols.
I feel cheated! And if the inevitable topic of most casual conversations
is any gauge, I am not alone. It has been, depending on your
perspective, either a long winter or it's going to be a very short
spring.
Yet, amidst the daily snowstorms, flowers are beginning to peek through
their earthen habitation and the fields of my daily drive are turning
ever so slowly from lifeless brown to the green of new life.
Some days it feels like we are experiencing a battle between Old Man
Winter and Sister Summer Solstice. One minute it is a snow shower the
next the sun is shining and often times both at the same time.
Clearly what we are witnessing is the springtime butterfly emerging from
its wintry cocoon, something that potentially has been going on from the
dawn of earthly time and certainly all of our lifetimes. What feels so
different this year is how it seems to be happening in slow motion.
The “WHEAT RISING GREEN “ that John M. C. Crum so poetically describes
above feels sometimes to my farmer friends as a very slow process. Like
waiting for water to boil, when the weather won't cooperate the long
blades of green grass that are their livelihood seem to be in the very
distant future.
The Good News however, that we so boldly proclaim this Easter season, is
that even in those times when it feels so slow, “LOVE IS COME AGAIN “
…and so will warm sunny days!
Blessings,
The Rev. Brian N. Prior, Rector
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