Winter

Can we have a moment of silence?

Pretty sure that this is what the “Winter of Our Discontent” might look like.

With only 3 days until spring, I don’t think I’m being too premature here.  I’m fairly certain that this might be an indication that my little evergreen will likely not ever be a little green. 

Winter did what winters do and snow and freezing temperatures came out to play.  The protective sun moved farther away.  

I don’t know what kind of chance my seedling started with, but it hailed from such a forcible foliage that I thought Jack Frost might not nip at its unsuspecting nose. 

But, here we are.  Or sadly, here we aren’t.

I am not a fan of winter.  Hate might be too strong of a word, but not by much.  I know,  “The stormy wind comes from its chamber and the driving winds bring the cold.  God’s breath sends the ice.”

Yet, what brings me such delight is that winter is just for a season.  

“As long as the earth remains, there will be springtime and harvest, cold and heat, winter and summer, day and night,” says the Lord.

Discontent is only for a season.

So are we.

We’re just short-lived wildflowers.  Grass and flowers…and little evergreens…that wilt, wither and fall away, none of it meant to be here to stay.

The Word of the Lord is not that way.

It conceives new life.

In us.

It is my hope. 

It’s what I pray.

Job 37:9

Genesis 8:22

1 Peter 1:24