It REALLY is Coming!!!!!!!

 Good day my friends.  I know most people are so ready for spring weather.  It sure seems that the weather has been a yo-yo this year.  We had the warmest weather in ages for winter and now days before springs arrival we get some of our coldest!  Go figure.

It is OK - I have seen hard frost and snow in May - thus the reason in our area that they say never plant garden before Mother's Day!!  Daddy always said the ground wasn't warm enough till later in May.  I go somewhere in between!

By the way - daddy always had the biggest and the best garden ever - even planting later.  

Today and the next couple days will be warmer and maybe sunny!!!!!  Then come Friday (again) rain and cold come back!!!

For everything there is a season.  I thought you might enjoy this today.

AFTER THE WINTER.....GOD SENDS THE SPRING

By: Helen Steiner Rice

Springtime is a season

    Of hope and Joy and cheer,

There's beauty all around us

    To see and touch and hear....

So, no matter how downhearted

    And discouraged we may be,

New Hope is born when we behold

    Leaves budding on a tree....

Or when we see a timid flower

    Push through the frozen sod

And open wide in glad surprise

    It's petaled eyes to God....

For this is just God saying --

"Lift up your eyes to Me.

And the bleakness of your spirit,

    Like the budding springtime tree,

Will lose its wintery darkness

    And your heavy heart will sing" --

For God never sends the Winter

    Without the Joy of Spring.

         The world will reawaken in God's time.  It always does.  Just be patient and have faith.

The same works for each of us.  There is darkness and gloom and weariness that gets us down - but faith says - God will pick us up and give us a brighter and happier day.  It doesn't happen overnight - but it will happen.

Never lose faith.  The storms of life are forever changing and so are we.  We evolve and we grow.  Not always as we thought we would, nor is life what we thought it might be.  I do believe it all has purpose - even though we do not understand now.

I love you all.  God loves you all.  Take a deep breath and know brighter days are ahead.

Spring will be here in all its forms SOON!