It's Sun and Fun, It's Summertime...

Across the nation milestones are celebrated. Set against the backdrop of warm sun kissed days, cooled by the occassional spring shower, America is breaking forth. Mimicking the pattern of the residents of our local greenhouse, we are awakening after a long winter's nap. It's a peculiar time of the year. Everyone it seems has a an extra hop in their step or song in their heart.
For some it's the completion of their freshman year of high school, that first step in the rite of passage to adulthood. For others it's graduation, a celebration of 4 glorious years of football games, academic examinations, proms, and homecoming queens. Lil Timmy is just excited that school is out and that he now has 3 extra hours of daylight to play before dark. The breaking of the spring marks the completion of another year's triumphs and trials. It is the threshold beyond which sits newlywed couples, summertime family reunions, lake trips, church mission trips, and family vacations. A time to rest, relax, and recouperate before autumn beckons us to the harvest fields.
If your celebrating a milestone or the completion of a degree, job well done and my congratulations to you. If your just basking in a break amidst the demands of your prescribed course of study, enjoy the respite from your work. Seize the days you have and make much of your opportunity. In all you do seek the guiding and directing hand of our Almighty Creator. Kick back, buy that lemonade from the young lad's stand of the street, and make these the best days of your life.