Letting Go

It’s a typically crisp and cold early March morning

As I scrape the thin morning coating of white frost off my windows

Frozen breath reminds me that although spring is close, it’s not yet here

It seems that the frosty white coating on the grass is here to remind me

That the cold blanket of winter chill on life is reticent to leave

Day after day, morning after morning, keeping fast its icy grip

Holding on till the last to its frost and chill

Yet biding their time just below the surface are the sleeping bulbs of new life

Waiting for just the right moment to shoot through and reach for the light

In their way announcing to the world that the time has come

Yet soon today the grip of winter chill will relent and milder times creep in

For a few hours, a taste fulfilling my dreams of spring

Lord bring the springtime of Your love to my heart

Help me break through the icy veneer of despair and bud forth with new life

Help me to loose the grip of all that is cold in my heart, all that binds me

As in Your wisdom you bring the warmth of Your love, transforming all

Help me transform too and let go of all the winter things that hold me fast

Melt away all that keeps me from feeling Your love

Warm my soul with the bright light of new hope

And thaw the chill of being apart from You

For even a moment

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