Nature has a powerful synchronicity with life that we often overlook. Consider these beautiful engaging flowers… only a few weeks ago the tender tree on which they grow was tainted with a wash of brown and stooped over helplessly in surrender to the ravages of drought. This morning however I walked outside to find the small tree erect, its leaves green and lustrous and its delicate frame brimming with pride as it showed off the beauty of its creation that sprang forth after the rain.

As true as it is with nature, sometimes near-death is simply the vehicle for a new resurrection, we have to relinquish things and allow friendships, circumstances, hopes and dreams to whither in order that they may blossom forth anew with strong tender shoots of life.