Winter –

Bitter cold,

Swirling snow,

Howling winds,

Barren landscape.

There is a harsh deadness to winter. Will there ever be life again?

Yet year after year we look for signs of Spring. We know from experience that it will come. God has promised and it has always come. So I pray and wait. Trusting a good God will bring Spring and new life out of this deadness. Struggling to thank Him in the winter, knowing it leads to Spring that will be more marvelous because of the winter that came before.

So too trouble comes with its cold, harsh, barrenness.

Sudden storms that are unpredictable.

Storms I have no control of.

Storms I want no part of.

Yet here they are swirling, howling about my life. They refuse to give an answer to my “why?”

So I pray and wait. Trusting God is with me especially in the trouble. Holding me close, teaching me to rely on Him. I haltingly thank Him for His care. Knowing someday there will be a “Spring” that will be even more beautiful because of the trouble that came before.

For Further Study:

Deuteronomy 31:8; Isaiah 43:2

Matthew 28:20; John 16:33

Matthew 6:25-34