Waiting for Spring and the new life it brings

I was thinking about the Flower Show this week. It's coming to the Convention Center next week, but I won't be able to go. It's just too darn expensive even though I do enjoy seeing all the floral displays. For some, it is the first inkling that spring is just around the corner. This winter has been particularly harsh. I've been stuck in the house a few days, shoveled snow more times than I can count and walked very carefully on ice covered sidewalks. I do thank God that I didn't have to go to work. Yet I still long for a new position...something that will help support me, and that I'll enjoy doing.

I wait for spring, hoping for a new life and a change from the worry and fear that has trapped me for so long. I know some of you out there also yearn for that change. You long to drop the dirty rags of sin and doubt that have sapped your strength. You may feel that there is no way out, no one who really sees you. I can tell you that I know that feeling. I felt it myself. There is a way out. I found it in the Lord Jesus Christ. He has led me and continues to lead me through this dark valley. My eyes have been opened to the suffering around me. Some days I do feel helpless until I realize that God does provide for me. He hasn't left me alone...I can wait knowing that some day I will see him face to face...and thank him personally for his sacrifice for me. He has given me a new life.