Winter Turns to Spring

Although it has not been a very cold winter here in my home state, it has been a long winter and I am eager for spring. I’m tired of seeing bare trees and lifeless brown leaves covering the ground. I long to see spring flowers poke through the greening grass and watch the woods come to life once more.

Yet, even as I anticipate my favorite season, I hear my mother’s voice saying, “Don’t wish your life away Mary Frances.”

If you’re like me, you sometimes hear yourself saying, “When such and such happens, then I will . . . or, If only so and so would do this, then I would do that . . . or, I would be happy if . . . or, I will be satisfied when . . .”

In longing for some future good, we forget that every day regardless of the weather, or our circumstances life is a gift from God to be used for His glory.

We are where we need to be and learning what we need to learn. So, stay the course because the things we experience today will lead us to where God needs us to be tomorrow.

In every season, there is a reason to rejoice and an opportunity to do well (Eccl. 3:12). The challenge for each of us every day is to find something to rejoice about and find a place where we can do some good—and then do both.

Just as the winter turns to spring, 

our lives have changing seasons too;
            So when a gloomy forecast comes,
            Remember—God has plans for you. —     

Every season brings a reason to rejoice.

     

 Perhaps the sweetest day of all the days is that upon which we hear a wild rumor faintly whispered in the winds of March; a hint that spring is here. Warm days come and then just as quickly are gone again… The idle gossiping of the birds in the trees stops and frost returns to the slightly greening grass. Spring indeed!  We say through chattering teeth…Who started such a rumor?

Then, suddenly, the golden daffodil that had been sleeping is once again resurrected  and bringing new life as it does a waltz with the breeze in the warm sunshine …bringing a reminder of God’s promise of life everlasting.

 The saints in prayer appear as one in word and deed and mind,

Where with the Father and the Son, sweet fellowship they find.

Prayer is made by man alone -the Holy Spirit pleads,

And Jesus on His eternal throne, for sinners

intercedes.                                                     

                                                                                                                                                      

 ~Mary Frances King