Spring flowers

Trust in God Who Plants the Seed

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In Spring the icy ground awakes
As ice melts down by rain
And flowers once lost beneath snow
Start to unfold again

Then hope after a Winter’s sleep
Comes calling at our door
And with its gentle voice awakes
Forgotten dreams once more

To trust in God who plants the seed
That in cold ground waits alone
For in Springtime it will live again
When He rolls back the stone!


And they asked each other, 
“Who will roll the stone away from the entrance of the tomb?” 
Mark 16:3 ESV

Trust God Who Plants the Seed
By Peter Caligiuri
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It’s Almost Spring!

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The flowers appear on the earth, the of singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle(dove) is heard in our land. Song of Solomon 2:12

While our year begins in Winter, with the month of January, you might be very surprised to learn that God’s calendar begins with a month called Abib in the Spring and coincided with the barley harvest. Spring was also when the Jewish people celebrated the Passover, their deliverance from Egypt and their beginning as a nation.

But did you know that Abib was also the month when Jesus died?  Just as the Israelites passed through the Red Sea to their freedom, so the death of Jesus on the cross means freedom from the power of sin over us as believers and the beginning of a new life.

So with Easter just two short weeks away, let’s pause and remember that our celebration of the resurrection of Jesus from the dead also means the celebration of the beginning of a new life. As we tear off the final page of our calendar every December 31st and put a new calendar on the wall, why not tear off a page this Spring and put a fresh calendar of God’s promises on the wall of your heart. You may just be amazed to watch as He parts the Red Sea and leads you into the freedom of a wonderful new life in Jesus Christ!

Back With Spring

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For behold, the winter is past; the rain is over and gone. The flowers appear on the earth, the time of singing[a] has come, Song 2:11-12

This winter I needed time away from this blog to rethink, reflect and refresh on why I should continue. I’ll just take it one day at a time for now, with more photos and maybe less talk. Today, my winter starved eyes are longing for the colors of spring flowers, but I confess these photos are not from this year. I do hope these few offerings from the past brighten someone’s day today as we begin to enter the week before Easter.