Spring Bloom

Élan
Leave the sleep and let the springtime talk
In tongues from the time before man
Listen to a daffodil tell her tale
Let the guest in, walk out, be the first to greet the morn.

Nightwish

Lent 12
'To our surprise and delight, we discovered that early Christian paradise was something other than "heaven" or the afterlife. Our modern views of heaven and paradise think of them as the world after death. However, in the early church, paradise-first and foremost-was this world, permeated and blessed by the Spirit of God.
Saving Paradise
Rita Nakashima Brock & Rebecca Ann Parker