Hello Summer, Goodbye Spring! Can you believe Summer 2019 is here already? Yes, it officially arrived on Friday, June 21st, the Summer Solstice, the longest day and shortest night of the year.
I must admit though, I kind of hate to see Spring 2019 go. Spring, after all, is, undoubtedly, one of my favorite times of the year.
Spring, that special season of renewal, regeneration, and restoration. It was the time when the snows of winter began to melt away and the frozen ground began to release its icy grip. Tulips popped up and, almost over night, blossomed in all their brilliance, resilience, and public announcement that "hope springs eternal."
Many people, me included, pulled together our spring playlist(s) to celebrate the promise of the season, to celebrate the joy of new life! Everywhere you looked, nature proclaimed to all who may have had any doubt that Spring had, most definitely, arrived!
Spring was a keen reminder that so many things that may have appeared to be lifeless in the dead of winter, were only lying dormant, quietly, steadily preparing to come back to life! Spring mirrors the message of Resurrection Sunday, and is the reason that season holds such special significance for me.
Hoping Spring 2019 was your Season of Personal Renaissance, Renewal, and Rising far above everything which had been holding you back. New Spring, New Life, New You!
I'm entering Summer 2019 with this thought in mind - Jeremiah 29:11.
Summer is the high tide of the year! The natural world overflows in abundance. It's a great time to get outdoors. Sunlight floods in all around. What better time to take a vacation (if only for a couple of days of total relaxation). It's a perfect time for beach reads. Summer has, definitely, arrived, my friends. Let us enjoy it!
Hoping You had a Happy, Prosperous, and Brilliant Spring 2019!
And May God's Favor Continue to Shine Brightly on You this Summer 2019. Be Blessed! ~ Kenneth Lillard
Be sure to check out my other online publications on this site. Hoping you'll find something here you'll like this Summer.
Books currently on my nightstand:
An American Marriage, Tayari Jones, Hardcover
Becoming, Michelle Obama, Hardcover
The Bible, YouVersion, and Several Hardcover Translations
Bleak House, Charles Dickens, Kindle
The Bondwoman's Narrative, Hannah Crafts; Edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Hardcover
The Dragonfly Sea, Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor, Hardcover
Educated, Tara Westover, Hardcover
Friday Black, Nana Kwame Adjai-Brenyah, Paperback
The Norton Anthology of African American Literature, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Nellie Y. McKay, General Editors, Paperback
The Old Drift, Namwali Serpell, Hardcover
On The Come Up, Angie Thomas, Hardcover
The Source of Self-Regard, Toni Morrison, Kindle
Art below: 'A Portrait of the Author as a Young Man.'
I must admit though, I kind of hate to see Spring 2019 go. Spring, after all, is, undoubtedly, one of my favorite times of the year.
Spring, that special season of renewal, regeneration, and restoration. It was the time when the snows of winter began to melt away and the frozen ground began to release its icy grip. Tulips popped up and, almost over night, blossomed in all their brilliance, resilience, and public announcement that "hope springs eternal."
Many people, me included, pulled together our spring playlist(s) to celebrate the promise of the season, to celebrate the joy of new life! Everywhere you looked, nature proclaimed to all who may have had any doubt that Spring had, most definitely, arrived!
Spring was a keen reminder that so many things that may have appeared to be lifeless in the dead of winter, were only lying dormant, quietly, steadily preparing to come back to life! Spring mirrors the message of Resurrection Sunday, and is the reason that season holds such special significance for me.
Hoping Spring 2019 was your Season of Personal Renaissance, Renewal, and Rising far above everything which had been holding you back. New Spring, New Life, New You!
I'm entering Summer 2019 with this thought in mind - Jeremiah 29:11.
Summer is the high tide of the year! The natural world overflows in abundance. It's a great time to get outdoors. Sunlight floods in all around. What better time to take a vacation (if only for a couple of days of total relaxation). It's a perfect time for beach reads. Summer has, definitely, arrived, my friends. Let us enjoy it!
Hoping You had a Happy, Prosperous, and Brilliant Spring 2019!
And May God's Favor Continue to Shine Brightly on You this Summer 2019. Be Blessed! ~ Kenneth Lillard
Be sure to check out my other online publications on this site. Hoping you'll find something here you'll like this Summer.
Books currently on my nightstand:
An American Marriage, Tayari Jones, Hardcover
Becoming, Michelle Obama, Hardcover
The Bible, YouVersion, and Several Hardcover Translations
Bleak House, Charles Dickens, Kindle
The Bondwoman's Narrative, Hannah Crafts; Edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Hardcover
The Dragonfly Sea, Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor, Hardcover
Educated, Tara Westover, Hardcover
Friday Black, Nana Kwame Adjai-Brenyah, Paperback
The Norton Anthology of African American Literature, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Nellie Y. McKay, General Editors, Paperback
The Old Drift, Namwali Serpell, Hardcover
On The Come Up, Angie Thomas, Hardcover
The Source of Self-Regard, Toni Morrison, Kindle
Art below: 'A Portrait of the Author as a Young Man.'
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