Week 15: Sacrifice

{ Project 52 Week 15: Sacrifice }

"Awake, thou wintry earth - 

Fling off thy sadness! 

Fair vernal flowers, laugh forth  

Your ancient gladness!"

~Thomas Blackburn, "An Easter Hymn"

Winter is a bit like sacrifice. We surrender to the bitter cold. We forgo lush green life. We give up long sunny days. Knowing that spring will be the reward. Spring will resurrect and renew. Spring will revive the world and the days around us. This pretty daffodil is a welcome sign of spring. It was blooming on Eater Sunday in my mom's garden.