I made a run up to the Little Pigeon River and made the loop around Cades Cove a few days ago. I needed to blow out some cobwebs and clear my heart and mind. Spring flowers… the flow of the water… just wandering through the trees helps.
Brings that childlike innocence of adventuring in nature back to my center. Best kind of vitamin for me.
Winter has been strange this year. Spring is looking very strange around the park. Like the feel of February.
Everything is taking it’s sweet time waking up. I was there on Friday. And I said then… that it felt like all the trees were saying we’re not quite ready, yet. Normally… we should be seeing all the greenery popping under the canopies… flower buds preparing to burst open.
Sunday morning… sure enough. Coming back from town I could see all the snow on the mountains.
But even the mountains seem to possess that same little secret I’ve used for a survival tool all my life. “Even in the worst of situations… it simply takes searching a little deeper to find the good… the positive.”
The closer I got to the ground… the more hope I began finding!
Sometimes… you just have to keep searching… to find everything that lives inside you. Like a game of Hide ‘n Seek… once it sees you… the love finally lets go and brings that smile to your face and joy in your heart!
My Morning's Heart 