The once healthy grasses that cover the land wither to a dull dry brown. Trees discard their leaves and pull their sap into the roots to protect themselves from the coming cold of winter. The birds alter their colors for the winter season to protect them against predators. The livestock begin to grow unsightly shaggy hair to blanket them against the chilling winter cold. The birds of the heavens shout of a newness as if to awaken the grass and the trees from their sleep.
Spring is about life.
You and I go through something very much like this process. We go through dry periods. We tend to pull our sap down into our roots in order to become renewed. We get a little shaggy. We even turn a bit brown.