Is it really spring?

I live in Eastern Pennsylvania and this year Spring is being very shy.  It seems to poke it's head up for a day or two and then vanish.  Maybe it is teasing us or maybe it is just shy.  I've enjoyed watching the flowers poke up through the ground.  I have some baby daffodils blooming in my front flower garden that seem to be laughing at the cold.  "We don't care if it is freezing outside - we are still here and that means it is spring!"  Flowers are stubborn that way - they come up when they are supposed to and the winter type weather doesn't seem to deter them at all.  They even were covered in snow just a few days ago.

Nature is funny that way.  Regardless of what our bodies tell us when we walk out the door in the morning - it is freezing cold, it must be winter - the truth is that it is spring.  We can't argue with it when we see the robins flying all around and the flowers pushing up through the ground.  We can deny it all we want - but the truth is evident.  It may be cold, but spring is here to stay!

Life is often like this too.  Things have been cold & dead for awhile.  A relationship has been lost, a child has been sick, a job has been difficult - but things begin to change.  New life begins to poke up around us.  God begins to restore that relationship, you see evidence of healing in your child, things begin to change at work - it gets gradually better.  It is spring!  Oh, but sometimes it only lasts a day or two and then the old, cold, dead wintry feeling returns and we think - no it is still winter.  NO!  Look at the evidence.  There is new life and change all around you.  It IS spring.  We are still going to have the cold feeling days that try to trick us into thinking otherwise, but that is not true.  Irregardless of what we feel like, the truth of a new season in life can't be denied.  I know that emotions are very fickle and often change on a dime.  I need to look for the evidence around me to realize the truth.  The little baby daffodils in the front flower garden may not be much, but they wouldn't be there if it wasn't spring.

So, let's put aside what we feel like and just accept the truth.  If we go outside and it feels like winter - who cares.  It is still spring and the warm weather and the beautiful flowers of spring are just around the corner.  If we wake up and we feel like nothing in our life is changing for the better - who cares.  That's not the truth.  The truth is that there is evidence all around us saying otherwise.  Day by day things will grow better & be more beautiful. 

"You will know the truth and the truth will set you free!"