{"id":6262,"date":"2015-03-20T15:16:43","date_gmt":"2015-03-20T19:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/ourladyofweightloss\/?p=6262"},"modified":"2015-03-20T15:16:43","modified_gmt":"2015-03-20T19:16:43","slug":"oneword-spring-shows-what-god-can-do-with-a-drab-and-dirty-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/ourladyofweightloss\/2015\/03\/oneword-spring-shows-what-god-can-do-with-a-drab-and-dirty-world.html","title":{"rendered":"#OneWord:  #Spring shows what God can do with a drab and dirty world."},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3508\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3508\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/ourladyofweightloss\/files\/2012\/03\/spring-time-express.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3508\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/100\/2012\/03\/spring-time-express-300x255.jpg\" alt=\"Hop on the Spring Time Express ~ contact Janice Taylor, Weight Loss Success Coach, Hypnotherapist, Author, Artist, Positarian\" width=\"300\" height=\"255\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3508\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hop on the Spring Time Express ~ contact Janice Taylor, Weight Loss Success Coach, Hypnotherapist, Author, Artist, Positarian<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Something is in the air! Something that makes me feel like smiling, singing, flying! What could it be? Spring? For real?\u00a0\u00a0 Yes, says your calendar. Here, from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.OurLadyofWeightLoss.com\" target=\"_blank\">Our Lady of Weight Loss<\/a> Spring Happy Vault, 11 spring inspired quotes to help you spring happy into renewal!<\/p>\n<p>Spring shows what God can do with a drab and dirty world. ~ Virgil Kraft<\/p>\n<p>Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm. ~ John Muir, <em>The Wilderness World of John Muir<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs the spring coming?\u201d he said. \u201cWhat is it like?\u201d \u2026<br \/>\n\u201cIt is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine\u2026\u201d<br \/>\n~ Frances Hodgson Burnett, <em>The Secret Garden<\/em><\/p>\n<p>She turned to the sunlight<br \/>\nAnd shook her yellow head,<br \/>\nAnd whispered to her neighbor:<br \/>\n&#8220;Winter is dead.\u201d ~ A.A. Milne, <em>When We Were Very Young<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke<\/p>\n<p>Spring is the time of plans and projects. ~ Leo Tolstoy, <em>Anna Karenina<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring. ~ Vladimir Nabokov, <em>Mary<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you\u2019ve got it, you want\u2014oh, you don\u2019t quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so! ~ Mark Twain<\/p>\n<p>Too much sun after a Syracuse winter does strange things to your head, makes you feel strong, even if you aren\u2019t. ~ Laurie Halse Anderson, <em>Speak<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The sun just touched the morning;<br \/>\nThe morning, happy thing,<br \/>\nSupposed that he had come to dwell,<br \/>\nAnd life would be all spring. ~ Emily Dickinson<\/p>\n<p>People are always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself. ~ Ernest Hemingway, <em>A Moveable Feast<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>For more Spring Happy inspiration, join Our Lady of Weight Loss&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/30757154492\/\" target=\"_blank\">KICK in the TUSH Club\/FB<\/a>!<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Spread the word&#8211;NOT the icing!<br \/>\nJanice<\/p>\n<p>Sign up for the KICK in the TUSH CLUB monthly e-newsletter, <a href=\"http:\/\/maildogmanager.com\/lptrack.html?OurLadyofWeightLoss::711::http:\/\/maildogmanager.com\/surveys\/OurLadyofWeightLoss\/optin1.html\" target=\"_blank\">sign up here<\/a>.<br \/>\nTo join the FACEBOOK\/KITT Club, <a href=\"http:\/\/maildogmanager.com\/lptrack.html?OurLadyofWeightLoss::711::https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/30757154492\/\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>!<br \/>\nFor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ourladyofweightloss.com\/services\/coaching\/\" target=\"_blank\">one-on-one coaching<\/a>, contact Janice!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something is in the air! 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