Day 4 of the Omer, Endurance in Lovingkindness. The spring flowers are just poking up, the first new green of the year. But this pine and other evergreens have never given up their green, and kept color in the winter landscape. Such endurance is in their genes, their needles protected from desiccation. The Holy One, too endures, never removing from us the gift of lovingkindness. May we feel it with us always. 

Shabbat Shalom,

Rabbi Katy Z. Allen