Spring has sprung in East Tennessee! I think most people that read this have had a spring thaw by now!
Its rejuvinating to the soul, all of the flowers and sunshine! Its amazing how heavy winter can get! The cold, dreary days that turn black before evening. Then when you can handle no more.... SPRING! How quickly we forget the cold. And not only that we expect spring to stick around once it shows its friendly face. Cold days, rainy days are less then tolerated at this point in the season! For now, anyway, it looks like its sticking around. PTL!
I guess our spirits work the same way. There is a quote that I like by Albert Camus. "In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer." That has to be the spirit in us. An invincible summer. Always sunny, blue skies, happiness. Can it be that we can truly live in the "summer" all year long? What a new and fabulous way to look at God..... An invincible summer! Go God!
My thoughts about this occured as I was praying for Ethan Bibb and his family as they await his scan results today. I was looking at the beauty of this spring day and realizing what a long day it has been for me waiting to be updated on a child I have never met, yet means so very much to me. It seems so strange.... my pen-pal friendship with Ethans author, my friendship with a family I have never met. I was thinking of them and remembering how long those days were..... they felt like those last dark days of winter! The whole time I felt my spirit was trying to find that invincible summer.... that sunshine, blue sky and happiness! Trying with everything in me to make good out of something bad! Today, I know that was never my job.... that was God's promise and "job" all along. And families like Ethan are the good out of the bad..... We truly are here to comfort others, edify others, bring peace in the chaos, when we can.
May we all allow God to bring the good out of the bad for us..... allow him to help us take that next step in our journey out of the ashes.... whatever that may be for you.
I challenge you to look for that invincible summer in your heart. I have a feeling once we all find it, Gods Sonshine will be brighter!
Kathy
Living Life Out Loud!
Genesis 50:20
