Spring has sprung: what a wonderful time of year. The cold bitter weather, the gray dreary skies, and the trees devoid of their foliage now begin to give way to the warming sun, the green foliage of grasses and bright petals of flowers all springing forth life. In the song, “the Rose,” there is the lyric, “that far beneath the bitter snows lies the seed, that with the sun’s love in the spring becomes the rose.” This makes me think of the seed that lies in all our...