We are going to meditate on the word 'Spring', and on how its different meanings turn up in our daily lives as we walk the path of the Wise .

LEAP

When we are out walking we sometimes have to leap over a ditch or up a bank. Or, at work, we have to change jobs or patterns of work and this may involve quite a leap. We may even find change in our path. It is a jump from the known to the unknown, from the well-worn to the new. It may be a leap in faith, trusting in deity to hold us up and to guide us. We look and notice how the Lord & Lady will go with us as we take the risk and leap, and they will show us the way in the unknown places.  Think about this and record what you find in your journal.

Silence (5 minutes).

SPRINGTIME

We find we are in a fresh green country which is being renewed by new life bursting out everywhere. There are still some familiar landmarks but even they look fresher. There is colour, sound and bright light. The words, 'the Light of Spring" or" "the return of hte SUN" gives everything a new look and new life. But Spring also shows up the dust and dirt and we find we have to do some spring-cleaning in ourselves so that the light can get to our darkest corners and make us wholly new.  THink aboutthis and experience the thought...write in your journal what your thoughts are.

Silence (5 minutes)

COILED SPRING

This kind of spring is resilient. It returns to its original shape whenever it is pulled, or contracted. In us this spring might be thought of as the power of Deity. So we can be stretched by overwork, the cares of our daily lives, responding to an emergency and the Lord & Lady restore us to our original shape. Or, we can be sat upon, diminished in some way, and They bring us back to the shape in which they see for our path.  Look at how you spring back from things that have happened in your life...Write your thoughts down as they come.

Silence (5 minutes)

SPRING OF WATER

This spring bursts out of the rocks, or from the ground beneath us and flows through the land freshening and re-vitalising as it goes. Even its sound is refreshing when we are hot and dry. It provides water to drink and to wash in.

THink of the refreshing that you feel as you get the problems washed out of your mind.  THis is many times done with just a heartfelt visit with deity.  Take a moment to write a letter to your personal deity and listen for what comes as an answer...then write how you feel.

Silence (5 minutes)

Close with some well known words by Charles Wesley.

Thou of life the Fountain art,
Freely let me take of thee,
Spring thou up within my heart,
Rise to all eternity.

(This exercised is based on the definitions and some of the ideas in Stephen Verney's book--   "Into the New Age", pp.66-79).