| I have always loved spring time. Green returns, flowers bud, new life blossoms. Early in Ethan and I’s relationship, we argued the beauty of spring. He claimed spring was nothing but muddy. I was flabbergasted. Spring is so full of beauty and hope! Then we moved to Fargo and I was better able to understand where he was coming from. The springs here are much less green than those in the PNW. Growing up in Washington State, my springs were very green and most of the mud I saw came from my tennis shoes during cross country season. Here the rain creates a lake in my driveway, floods basements, and turns our gray winter world brown. Not quite so romantic. But still, to me spring is a physical reminder of Jesus’ resurrection that we celebrate each Easter. Dead things coming to life. This example is even more real to me here in ND, where my beautiful plants truly die. Green really does disappear from our landscape.
And then it returns.
One of my favorite passages of scripture is Hosea 6:1-3.
“He has torn us to pieces
but he will heal us;
he has injured us
but he will bind up our wounds.
After two days he will revive us;
on the third day he will restore us,
that we may live in his presence.
Let us acknowledge the Lord;
let us press on to acknowledge him.
As surely as the sun rises,
he will appear;
he will come to us like the winter rains,
like the spring rains that water the earth.”
Is there anything else I can add after that?
All creation points to it’s Awesome Creator. Spring rain is a picture of how the Lord will come to us. He will be inescapable. We will be soaked to the bone by His presence. He will bring dead things to life and make them beautiful. I hope that if we get lots of rain this spring, you will let it remind you of the Resurrection. Both Jesus’, and ours. Because of the miracle we celebrate each Easter, “he will restore us that we might live in his presence”.
Grace Zeltinger, Secretary
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