Gardens along the way...41...dreaming..hope

 Gardens along the way... 41...dreaming...hope...

I am getting daily advertisements for trees, shrubs, seeds, winterizing and prepping fruit trees, spring gardens....etc. ...etc...etc...I haven’t been

to Costco lately, but am sure their huge bulb selection isn’t too far away...

The snow is falling, especially in the mountains nearby, it is cold here, the ground is an hard as a rock, yet we are already preparing for the sunny spring and warm summer,  gardens and orchards unleashed from their frozen state after a winter’s nap....

Hope...that’s what those advertisements are selling... for a productive year...a better year....where we are free to roam, free to greet...free to live unbound...free to be “normal”...free to grow....

We do have a hope in Christ...He is the best hope we have...thank YOU.... 

“And now, O Lord, for what do I wait? My hope is in you.

Psalm 39:7

The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; 

his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; 

great is your faithfulness. 

“The Lord is my portion,” says my soul, “therefore I will hope in him.” 

The Lord is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him. 

It is good that one should wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord.

Lamentations 3:22-26 

Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.

Romans 5:1-5

Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer.

Romans 12:12 

For through the Spirit, by faith, we ourselves eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness.

Galatians 5:5