Just some early morning thoughts from me to you…

“Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past.
See, I am doing a new thing!
Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?
I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.”
Isaiah 43: 18-19 (NIV)

“I love spring!”

The words streamed from my bride yesterday during lunchtime, after having planted new plants—Amaryllis—in decorative pots on the front porch the day before.

Anticipating the opportunity to continue planting around the yard in the next few days, she continued with—

“The joys of spring. God’s new painting of His creation as flowers bloom, plants begin to bud, and the grass greens up and grows.”

“I just love spring!

A perfectly timed, divinely shared word of reminder of Isaiah’s words from our God who is always at work in the world and our lives—

“Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past.
See, I am doing a new thing!
Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?
I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.”

We’ve been through it together this past year.

As a matter of fact, today is just about the time of the one-year anniversary of the onset of the Coronavirus pandemic here in our nation.

And then together we witnessed and experienced a year unlike any in recent memory—with the virus, protests, riots, violence, election discord and disputes.

All times which seemed to divide, rather than unite us, and caused us all to wonder what would be next as individually and together we faced and tried to move past the mountains and valleys overwhelming us.

We’ve also been through it personally, dealing with lost relationships, career ups and downs and financial hardships while trying to figure out the next steps in our lives.

But then spring arrives, with the reminder that no matter what is going on around us or within us, God still is always actively at work in our lives and the world around us.

Always doing a new thing in our lives.

Always actively at work making all things new.

And all the while through that, reminding us to move on from what was before and into all that will and can be with Him.

“I love spring!”

“God’s new painting of His creation as flowers bloom, plants begin to bud, and the grass greens up and grows.”

God says, “I am doing a new thing.”

Thank God!

Why not follow Him.

In His Name–Scott