Tag: Rachel

Sunny Days

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Sunny days are for…

Fieldtrips with favorite students…

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and for finding wild flowers.

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And the long evenings while the sun slowly sinks are for seeing what’s blooming in my own yard…

Mostly Dandy Lions!

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But bluebells too.

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And it wouldn’t be spring without the dainty salmonberry blossoms dancing in mid-air…P1100754

Or the cheery face of first Calendula!

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I love a sunny spring day!

–LS

“The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtledove [or in our course the bullfrog!] is heard in our land.” Song of Songs 2:12

Hope springs…

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Hope springs, because of a promise:

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“As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease.” Gen.8:22 

And so the seasons cycle ‘round in a never ending succession.  Winter cannot stay.  Stark leafless branches raising their limbs skyward have only to wait for the sun to do its bidding…

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It’s amazing what a little warmth will do!P1090834

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Though I may seem at present to be obsessed with blooms of the botanical sort, there is another kind of bloom I’m watching, as my youngest prepares to leave the nest…

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Amazing what a little love can do….

–LS

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And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God.  Not only so, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance;  perseverance, character; and character, hope.  And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us. Rom.5:2-5

But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently. Rom.8:25