Surrender is painful

but accepting the truth will set us free

and in surrender we see our pain become beautiful

lessons of strength that we have learned

as we leave our old ways behind

rediscovering the spring of innocence that we once knew

and loved

before the world taught us to fall in love with winter

and never to question

the cold

before we started looking beyond what the eye can see

to something greater

and we realized that faith is the essence of things unseen

that if we surrender the frozen landscape

where the world sends imagination out to die

we haven’t lost anything

yes, these were the truths that set us walking

we may be walking slowly

but at least we are walking away

from an ice world

and every step toward summer is progress

every act of creativity is scandalous

to people who prefer the freezing winds of ignorance

but when we use our talents in service of the truth

we are fulfilling the mandate that God gave us

to teach the ways of spring

to everyone who has yet to see the sun