snow = Life

Ok I know by now most of us, save the snowboarding enthusiasts, are feeling like there has been enough snow, and we are longing for the sweet springtime to appear.
It's coming. We know this. It will flutter...come and go a few times...then suddenly, everything will be green... the lillies of the valley, tulips and Daffodils , and new life will be abundant, and we'll sit outside and go to parks and all too soon, we'll be fanning ourselves, beneath the summer sun.
Our spiritual walk follows a similar pattern...long winters, brutal, harsh realities, beat us down, steal our comfort, bleakness where it seems we are in a whiteout...where is the end, the comfort, the promise?

It's coming. We know this. It will flutter, come and go a few times....and then He will return to us...the Lily of the Valley, will appear in all His Glory, to renew us , new beginnings, new life, new mercies, a new pattern slightly different from the last time...and finally we will be basking in the Glory of the Lord, fanning our faith under the presence of the SON....and receving His promise of Life once more.