O Spirit of Life and Renewal

by Jane Rzepka

We have wintered enough,
mourned enough,
oppressed ourselves enough.

Our souls are too long cold and buried,
our dreams all but forgotten,
our hopes unheard.

We are waiting to rise from the dead.


In this, the season of steady rebirth,
we awaken to the power so abundant, so holy,
that returns each year through earth and sky.

We will find our hearts again, and our good spirits. 
We will love, and believe, and give and wonder,
and feel again the eternal powers.

The flow of life moves ever onward
through one faithful spring,
and another,
and now another.

May we be forever grateful.

Alleluia.

Amen.

Jane Rzepka, senior minister of the Unitarian Universalist Church of the Larger Fellowship, gave us her kind permission to reprint her meditation from Singing the Living Tradition (#510), published by Beacon Press.