Crossing the threshold into summer

A solstice reflection on what spring asked of us — and what summer is now inviting us to keep

The longest day of the year does not feel like an ending. It feels like an arrival — light pooled at the edges of the evening, the garden no longer asking us to start, only to stay.

Spring required a kind of faith of beginnings. We planted things we could not yet see. Summer asks a different faith: the faith of remaining. Of returning to the same row, the same Bible, the same prayer — and trusting that hidden growth is still growth.

Use the companion worksheet this week to mark what you are carrying forward. Name three habits, three people, three verses. Tuck the page into the back of your notebook and look at it again in September.