Early Spring

Well, I know I just did a semi-spring post, but I just love spring so much that I've gotta post another. So hang with me!

Right now, spring is just beginning. Like the picture on the left, the very first greens are just beginning to come out of the ground. This was a little fern I found early this week, one of the first greens I saw. In the background is all the brown, dull, deadness of fall, but in the focus the green plant demonstrates that new life springs out even from a world of surrounding death.

Below is pictured several of Mom's daffodils coming out of the ground. Now, less than a week later, the first of these daffodils have budded and started putting out flowers. Even now, I'm trying to take a time lapse of them opening. Maybe in a little while that video will show up in my videography page.

Don't ask what the picture on the left is. It's just what Tyler and I would call "interpretive," meaning that isn't really anything but a strange, unusual, and curiosity pricking picture. Below is a picture of the first flower I saw this spring.

The change from the cold of winter to the warmth of spring has made for some beautiful scenes. Whether it's flowers, weeds, leaves, or grass, God's creation, which seems to be renewing itself in spring, is gorgeous!

My all time favorite reminder that spring gives me is, without a doubt, the life Christ gives to the dead. The way He takes brown, dull, dead, lifeless people and brings them to life is simply awesome. And I see that reminder all over the place as trees, bushes, flowers, and grass are given new life for this year. I'm so thankful God chose to send this reminder on a yearly basis!

Spring Rains

"Let us know; let us press on to know the LORD; His going out is sure as the dawn; He will come to us as the showers, as the spring rains that water the earth" (Hosea 6:3, English Standard Version).

Well, I don't know about everywhere, but here in Kentucky spring is arriving. Spring is, without a doubt, my most favorite season. It is an amazing time of year: all the new life, colors, smells, and sounds. Yet this life cannot come without at least two things: rain and sunshine. Tyler and I went out on a morning not too long ago and got some pictures of the rain side of this equation.

The column of rain coming from this cloud looked simply awesome. My brother Tyler is photographing it in the picture above.

How much spring rains can speak about God! The spring rain provides the earth with the water it needs just when it needs it, and Christ did a very similar thing for us: "For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly" (Romans 5:6, English Standard Version).

Doesn't my brother look heroic in this picture, looking out on the big giant storm? Hee hee.

The rainbow is another awesome picture of God's grace, faithfulness, and creativity. He will never forget the promise he made in Genesis 9. Every time He sees the rainbow, He remembers His covenant of salvation.

As the passage quoted at the beginning of this post says, the spring rains have a lot to say about their creator. I just need to keep my eyes and ears open!

Ephesians 2:1-7