Driving so much these last few weeks, seeing spring emerge from the cold winter snows and rains has been fun, the flowers, the trees, and the animals...new gangly colts, baby calves snuggled into the hay tossed by the ranchers...new lambs galloping in groups around the fields....baby goats playing king of the mountain....baby ducks swimming in formation in the various pools at Disneyland ....baby chicks, turkeys, quail at the local feed store....
When our children were little, we would make the yearly trek out into the country to see these spring time sights...and then we lived in the country and had our own menagerie to watch and care for...one of the cutest was a family of baby skunks ....the mother took the lead, followed by four tiny ones, about the size of a baseball, all with their tails straight up in the air with a tiny kink backward at the top, walking down the country road....we kept our distance on that group!! Fawns hidden in the bushes by their mothers, bunnies hopping around or baby killdeer, looking like walking cotton balls on toothpicks...
It is all such a reminder that there is life after winter, joy after night, new beginnings...that life goes on...seasons for everything....thank YOU for new life.....
Leviticus 26:4
I will send you rain in its season, and the ground will yield its crops and the trees their fruit.
Psalm 1:3
That person is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither— whatever they do prospers.
Psalm 104:19
He made the moon to mark the seasons, and the sun knows when to go down.
Ecclesiastes 3:1
[ A Time for Everything ] There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens:
Song of Songs 2:12
Flowers appear on the earth; the season of singing has come, the cooing of doves is heard in our land.
Jeremiah 5:24
They do not say to themselves, ‘Let us fear the Lord our God, who gives autumn and spring rains in season, who assures us of the regular weeks of harvest.’
Jeremiah 8:7
Even the stork in the sky knows her appointed seasons, and the dove, the swift and the thrush observe the time of their migration. But my people do not know the requirements of the Lord.
Acts 14:17
Yet he has not left himself without testimony: He has shown kindness by giving you rain from heaven and crops in their seasons; he provides you with plenty of food and fills your hearts with joy.”
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