Spring is one of my favorite seasons. It teaches me that dreams and hopes that look dead are not at all. They may have been covered with dirt: hardships, pains, hurts or hidden from view because of delays, depression, discouragement, disappointments. Ahh, but when the Spring comes, praise God, my dreams are given the strength to push through that dirt, to push pass the pain, rejection. My hopes live again! I learn that dirt was the very soil my hopes and dreams needed to thrive - even when I couldn’t see it happening. I learned to have faith in God during seasons of dry ground, of testing and trial. I learned God always has a good purpose for dirt. He’s the one that turns that meant for evil dirt into meant for good soil- a nutrient rich environment I didn’t even know I needed. Spring reminds me to keep hope alive. As the Anita Wilson song says: “My eyes may not see it, by faith I believe it..”
I encourage you today to keep hope alive. The winter is past, the Spring is here. Believe again, dare to dream again. God is working it out on your behalf!