Every Friday I join a community of bloggers for Five Minute Friday. One word prompt, five minutes. Unedited. The prompt this week is … Green.
Green is probably my favorite color of spring and summer. As I see life blooming in the plants and trees, I am always amazed at how many shades of green which exist.
Green speaks of new growth, progress, and life. Green sprouts from nothing, from patches of brown bringing reminders of seasons past.
Green speaks to me of nourishment for my body and my soul. Green brings a calm and a peace that is enveloping and satisfying.
Green –
nourishing,
full of vitality and
new growth.
Green brings hope of what is yet to come.
“Then God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit yielding seed; it shall be food for you; and to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the sky and to every thing that moves on the earth which has life, I have given every green plant for food”; and it was so.”
(Genesis 1:29-30, NASB)
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Today I am joining …
I hear you! These New England winters keep us starving for green, and every spring I feel my soul practically greening along with the rest of the world.
Michele, I loved that you said your “soul practically greening” 🙂 Every day when my granddaughter wakes from her nap, I pull up the shade and for a few minutes, she looks out and tells me everything she sees. These months of winter, she has announced, “No leaves on the trees. They all fall down.” I have so been anticipating the day when she first notices the leaves budding again. Oh how precious to see it all through the eyes of a child!
Very similar to what I think about green. That doesn’t surprise me!
Yes, there is something very peaceful and hopeful about green!
I saw the land at break of day,
and all around was to be seen
beige and rose and light blue-grey,
but nowhere was there hint of green
in this rolling desert-place
of which a Shelley might have told;
green is such a youthful grace,
not for burning plains so old
that they have lost scarce memory
of water-fall from smiling skies,
for it is their sere destiny
to be denied, but not despise
the benison the west winds bring,
the healing rain, the green of spring.
Amen, Andrew >>> “the healing rain, the green of spring.”
“Green speaks of new growth, progress, and life. Green sprouts from nothing, from patches of brown bringing reminders of seasons past.”
Wow!! Deirdre FMF#2
Every February I begin to anxiously look out at my back yard, wondering if my barren fruit trees have died. It literally happens EVERY YEAR. And then toward the end of the month, suddenly, as if overnight they appeared, there are the tiniest leaves of green to assure me it spring is coming. The tree that grows next to it blooms later, but I never worry about it. By the time its leaves appear I have forgotten my early spring worries because I trust the cycle again.
Amie, FMF #20
Amen, Amie – “we learn to trust the cycle again” !
Amen Joanne, I feel the same way about green. You’ve summed green up beautifully.
Visiting from FMF#11
I love this word for today! I have had much rain in my part of the country since the ice melted. Now it is time for green! Reading poetry today of green and the Scripture in Genesis you gave me is so reassuring (as is all of God’s Word!).
I love the color of new green leaves in spring. It is such a hopeful color! It reminds us of the hope we have in Jesus of the new life to come.
Green is my absolute favorite color! I think it’s because it embodies all these things you name above.