"No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow"

It always happens about this time of year.

While I'm busy with my head turned aside

Brown turns to green...

Green bursts forth with color

and tiny shoots of all things new

raise higher and higher

in praise of a new season.

And Spring isn't just a word anymore,

it's a state of mind.

Today isn't simply the day after yesterday, 

it's one day closer to the grand revelation of 

all things new 

and 

bursting with color

 and with it comes HOPE

 HOPE for all things new

 both in my yard...

 and in my life

 After many months of 

dreary

cold

dark

days

it's as if the very world has come alive

 for the first time

and is breathing its first breath.

 but it's not.

It's done this before

and it will do it again.

"There is nothing new under the sun..."

 and yet...

it is new again...

Just as His mercy is new every morning,

the earth is new every Spring.

And it is good

because it is a reminder that He is here

still

and 

again

 Just as

long and hard 

as the winter months of our lives are, 

is the goodness and grace

of the long awaited dawning of new things 

revealed in the Springtime of our lives.

 After winter

Spring always comes.

It works that way.

Always.

I'm waiting 

still waiting,

sometimes patiently

sometimes not

for the dawning of Spring

in many areas of my life

HOPING

PRAYING

TRUSTING

ASKING

that after the long-suffering days of winter have run their course

Spring will come 

with sprouts of 

new growth

new life

new instructions

and 

new color...

lots and lots

of 

vivid

COLOR

And it will come

I have no doubt of it,

because nothing is new under the sun

and

 God is 

the same

 yesterday

today

and 

forever

and He always shows up 

to 

show off 

His creative hand...

"Every spring is the only spring - 

a perpetual astonishment."  

Ellis Peters