Spring Has Arrived

Looking out my bedroom window, I have a wonderful view of the small flower garden and two old Chinese Elms. A week ago they looked gray and dead. Their limbs seemed frail and thin against the cold winter sky. It is amazing what a couple of days of 40 degree temperature have done for the old elms.

On Friday morning as I watched the slowly rising sun set the eastern horizon ablaze, I could see a remarkable transformation had taken place. The elms were no longer thin and gray. Their branches now had substance and fullness about them. Their gray color had turned to a rusty brown.

It was finally happening, right outside the window. Spring was arriving slow and steady. I had tried to rush it as I do so many things in my life, but it paid me no mind. What I have perceived as slow in coming was arriving just when our Heavenly Father has planned.

Such a gentle reminder those old elms have given me. I need to patiently wait. Soaking in all of the present as God works His plan for my life in His time.

Margaret Degler
March 16, 2003