When the things hoped for are ‘not yet’ we wait, and walk, in steady confidence that God makes all things beautiful in His time. Knowing every season does in fact have its beauty.
I have been watching and waiting for the little branch I redeemed from the burn pile to show signs of life…
One day there came a peep of redness at the tips of the buds:
The next, to my surprise, came catkins creeping…
When they had dried up and begun dropping off the branch was nearly relegated to the garbage when lo…
And behold!
Against a wintry backdrop green began emerging!
…unfurling to my delight into dainty green leaves
defying the snowfall outside the window…
So we continue to weather a fickle spring–with sunny warmth and clear sidewalks one day and mini-blizzards the next. And we continue to put in exercise time after work at the Nordic Center rather than on the tandem which waits under a snowy tarp for warmer weather…
And I keep children’s books on hand for the sweetness they exude and the smiles they inspire!
This one sits open on my desk these days:
[illustrations by Lisa McCue in M. Wise Brown’s Bunny’s Noisy Book ©2000]
–LS