08/28/2026
➡️➡️I wouldn’t normally do this, but it’s too generative and helpful not to. Let me share a textual possibility. In Song of Songs 2:12, a verse that describes winter being over and spring having arrived, it says: “Flowers appear on the earth; the season of singing has come, the cooing of doves is heard in our land.” That little line, “season of singing,” could be translated as “season of pruning.” That obviously changes how early spring might feel. But it is a thing you do to vines in the early spring. You have to cut them down for their next season of growth. I know. I’d rather be singing than being cut down, too, but there it is.
So it’s worth thinking about pruning in the context of your spring season. Don’t assume that brutal cutting back in your life is winter. That could be a misreading of your life’s true season. As Martin Luther once said in a pastoral letter, sometimes when life feels the worst, that is the sign that the worst is just about over. In other words, Spring is here. That’s why there was pruning in the first place - that spring may be sprung most fully in you.
“Every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful.” – Jesus
See you Sunday for more encouragement in Christ!
- Pastor
