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Spring

“Is the spring coming?" he said. "What is it like?"...
"It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine...”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

I just love Spring! It is such a wonderfully, lovely season. The beautiful flowers blooming, the sweet birdies singing their songs.

This Spring, however, has started out rather chilly. On the first day of Spring it snowed. But this just makes it fun to take Photographs!

“A Robin said: The Spring will never come,
And I shall never care to build again.
A Rosebush said: These frosts are wearisome,
My sap will never stir for sun or rain.
The half Moon said: These nights are fogged and slow,
I neither care to wax nor care to wane.
The Ocean said: I thirst from long ago,
Because earth's rivers cannot fill the main. —
When Springtime came, red Robin built a nest,
And trilled a lover's song in sheer delight.
Grey hoarfrost vanished, and the Rose with might
Clothed her in leaves and buds of crimson core.
The dim Moon brightened. Ocean sunned his crest,
Dimpled his blue, yet thirsted evermore.”
― Christina Rossetti

Wordless

Joyfully

Every morning I wake up is a gift. Each day is one more chance to start out right. I should rejoice that I have another morning. Another sunrise. One more day to be thankful, because there isn't enough time to give thanks to God. And yet I don't always treat the dawn as such a gift; I sometimes think of all the things in my day that need to be done, and then I grumble.

For His anger endureth but a moment; in His favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.  -- Psalm 30:5

By His great mercy, I have a chance to start with a new day. I am so glad the Lord has blessed me with so many things, even for the little things that sometimes bother me. Because without those things I really couldn't be thankful. I truly am blessed.

Rejoice in the Lord always: and again I say, Rejoice.-- Philippians 4:4