Spring Cleaning

March 21 is the vernal equinox, the first day of Spring! Why does Spring always fall during Lent. It is such a looked forward too season (especially this year in our neck of the woods) as we all want to experience the warmth that the onset of Spring promises. If you think about it Lent is the time to experience the anticipation of the Resurrection so perhaps there is a very good reason for Spring to begin during Lent.

The Lent comes from the word lengthen. Spring falls in Lent as the days are getting longer makes perfect sense now. We experience longer days and hopefully those days are filled with sunshine to melt snow and warm the earth. Time for flower gardens and vegetable gardens can’t be far behind can they?

We also think of cleaning during the season of Spring, thus the title of this blog Spring Cleaning! The time when we freshen our homes for the coming summer. Or the time when we show our children what it means to cooperate so things are cleaned quickly and with fun. We all want our children to know how to take care of themselves and sometimes that means being the adult and saying OK before we can do the fun things we all need to work together to get this chore done. Does your home have a place for everything so that when something needs to be put away everyone knows where to put it? If not maybe this the time to put that organizational mind set in place so that by Easter our homes are ready for the risen Lord.