Spring is in the air...

A new season has started officially as of Sunday, March 20th.  Spring has finally arrived in our area.  After all the snow we got this past winter, it is a most welcome guest around here.  Mind you, we still have knee-deep snow in the shady parts around our property.  But in the last two weeks things have started melting pretty quickly.  And we breath a sigh of relief.  


Spring is probably my favourite season, if I were to pick one.  There is something about the smell in the air as the sun is slowly warming the earth.   Although not everyone would agree with me, as I found out in talking with another lady last weekend.  She told me that she hates spring time.  To her, spring is "nasty and muddy and the air smells rotten".  


Isn't it amazing how one subject can be experienced in such different and quite opposite ways?  To me spring is the promise of new life.  I love to walk around the yard and see bright yellow green buds sticking up out of the soil.  New life sprouting from underneath dead leaves.  And the air smells sweet and holds promise of hope and  life as the dead earth gives way to new life.  


As we see the new season unfold, we are reminded again of God's unfailing love and faithfulness to us.  We are given new life in Christ, through His death and resurrection.  We read it in Scripture and we can see and experience it in His creation.


Thank you God for your great faithfulness!

Summer and winter and springtime and harvest, 

Sun moon and stars in their courses above, 

sing with all nature in manifold witness 

to Thy great faithfulness, mercy and love.

Great is Thy faithfulness, great is Thy faithfulness

morning by morning new mercies I see

All I have needed Thy hand hath provided

great is thy faithfulness Lord unto me.