Hope - No Winter Lasts forever!

 Today I've calmly  (and, I might add - fearlessly) wandered around  my yard looking for signs of spring.   Snapping a picture here and a picture there. (see pics below)   I always did need proof of everything.  It's most annoying sometimes.

Once again I'm reminded of the promise of spring - the hope of spring.    

The hope of better things, better times and better seasons to come,
and especially of an eternal home
with no tears,  no pain, no sickness,
no death,
no night.


But . . . right now I have work to do.
A life to live purposefully, as long as I live!   



Out of the ashes and dust we WILL rise.  If we allow it!

I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.

Carl Sandburg

  

The barren times are coming to an end! 

The dry seasons in life do not last.

The spring rains will come again. 

Sarah Ban Breathnach

  









  


The old will become new! 
Because of His great love we are not consumed, for His compassions
never fail.  They are NEW every morning.  Lam 3:21-23

 

A new day is coming!
Fling off thy sadness!
Fair vernal flowers, laugh forth.

Thomas Blackburn





 

No winter lasts forever

No Springs skips its turn

Hal Borland



   The birds will sing again!

 For, when the cheerless night passed by,
    The sun would wink his golden eye,
         And birds would sing again.

              John O'Brien

Hope Springs Eternal

The day the Lord created HOPE was probably the same day he created SPRING. ~ Bern Williams

 "If we had no winter,

the spring would not be so pleasant;

if we did not sometimes taste of adversity,

prosperity would not be so welcome"

Anne Bradstreet

No winter lasts forever;  ~  Hal Borland

Expect to have hope rekindled. Expect your prayers to be answered in wondrous ways.

The dry seasons in life do not last.

The spring rains will come again. 

Sarah Ban Breathnach

What a difference 10 days make!

10 days ago it was wind chill of  15 degrees below zero

Yesterday it was a heat index of  70 degrees above zero.

What's up with that???

Oh - it's a reminder that Spring is coming, whether it looks like it TODAY or not.

A few nice days to give us hope;

Saying - "Hang in there

Winter won't last forever" 

The robins are back! 

They arrived a week ago to find lawns & fields
covered in snow.

They sang anyway. 

Did you hear that?

THEY SANG ANYWAY!

I love their song.

In fact, this morning I woke up to a robin singing. 

Ahhhhh!  Spring is almost here. 

I just wanted to stay in bed and listen.