A Renewal

Broccoli slips planted two weeks ago are thriving and asparagus should be sprouting up any day. The time is arriving soon when the rest of the garden can be planted without concern for frost or freezing. Spring has emerged full force from the throes of winter bringing with it warm days and cool nights and random showers to moisten the fields. Birds are at times frantically preoccupied with the building of nests virtually anywhere safe from the elements. Life’s cycle in nature is manifesting itself yet again as it demonstrates the wonder of creation. In two days I too will take a step toward renewal as I submit to the cardiologist’s skill at “cardioversion.” Through either medication effects or my unique cardiac perception of time and space, my atrium has engaged consistently in flutter and fibrillation. The winter of rapid pulse rate is soon drawing to a close and the spring of normal sinus rhythm is around the corner. As I anticipate the procedure that will literally stop my heart and “shock” it back to a normal rate I must do so with a metaphorical heart placed in the hands of gratitude for the opportunity to have this done. I have studied the risks of such a procedure as well as the consequences of doing nothing and I have chosen to engage the former. Trust and faith are both at work as I look ahead to an outcome that is both renewing and rewarding. Grace will sustain the outcome however it may unfold!