April Email Reflection ~

This week, we’ve had several days of rain here in Kansas City. And even though it’s been an overcast week, I notice how vibrant the colors are becoming. Small pockets of green buds now sprinkle the hillside across from my home, a view I’ve held for three years now.
​Just outside my front door, a small nest rests in my wreath. A mother house finch quietly guards five eggs, just as she did this same time last year.
Five eggs then.
Five eggs now.
As part of my morning prayer and meditation, I opened Untucked and landed on Wings of Spring—a reflection I wrote during this very season. At the end, I ask:
What is currently unfolding in your life that you can’t yet see fully formed? Where might you be encouraged to trust your own wings?
I, sitting in a place of wondering what’s next, had to smile. Opening my own book at random brought me an answer. Or at least, a message.
God does not always speak in clarity.
Sometimes He speaks in patterns.
In repetition.
In gentle return.
And here I am again standing in the in-between.
Between ideas and action.
Between what I can plan… and what I must surrender.
All around me, nature is doing what it has always done.
The trees are filling in without strategizing their leaves.
The birds are building and waiting, without publicizing.
The rain is falling without asking permission.
Nothing is rushed or forced.
And nothing is wasted.
Nature reminds me of this often: just be with it, and everything else will follow.
I’ll admit, my habits of accomplishing and achieving run deep. But the more Untucked I live, the more willing I am to loosen my grip.
If it is meant for me, it will not pass me by.
I don’t need to have all the answers right now.
I can follow the quiet wisdom of nature.
As we step into April and the gentle unfolding of Nature Heals, I invite you to look around at what is quietly growing in your own life.
What is forming beneath the surface?
What feels uncertain, yet alive?
You don’t have to force the answers or rush the process.
Just notice.
Just be with it.
And trust… that what is meant to bloom will.
April’s Prayer~
God,
Help me to trust what I cannot yet see.
Remind me that nothing growing is ever wasted.
And guide me gently, in Your time, toward what is mine to become.
Peace be with you,
J~

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