Changing Seasons

Lately, we have been having un-seasonably warm days. It has been above freezing and pushing 40 degrees most of this past week. Now, I love the changing of the seasons just as much as anyone else, it's just that I don't like getting my hopes up when it is still February. Remember last year? Yeah.

Seeing all the snow melt, made me remember how much I hate this part of "spring." A few days ago, it got to the point where all the snow was brown and crusty and the melting snow revealed mud along with the dead plants. Truly, it is depressing to look at such a muddy, filthy spectacle. And, as with everything else, it got me thinking.

In our lives, we tend to get caught up in the ways of life and habitual sins. We try to make things look good outside, but underneath, no life exists. White snow covers everything. We lose focus on the things that matter and things get colder and colder. This to me is kind of like winter about a month after New Years. The snow and cold is still there, but there isn't much to look forward to. It's dead and no rhythm to life.

Then, something happens and we pray to God to bring us back to a new life with him. Yet, at this point, it seems like things get worse and worse, like the nice white snow, melting and showing the true death underneath it. Now, the "badness" is out and we are confronted by the filth that has infiltrated our lives: a stinking, brown mess that looks impossible to clean up. This seems to be a breaking point of whether to press on or whether to fall back into "winter." In the movie, "The Dark Knight," there is a line that states, "The night is always darkest before the dawn." The context is that someone said things were worse at that point than ever before and they wanted to quit. Well, the leader stepped up and said the above line, pushing people to press on because the dawn is coming. To me, this "early spring" is that point.

If we press on, God continues to call and pull us though and as refreshing rains come, slowly, the filth is washed away and the dead plants underneath come to life. Out of the garbage, green plants begin to sprout, trees bud and flowers form. A new life is in the air and creatures come out of their slumber. A resurrection occurs.

I haven't thought about how fall fits in with this. I think this is where the comparisons stop. :)

wedding and flight

My flight training began a few weeks ago and the above airplane is the same model as the one I am training in. It is a Cessna 150. Flying is something I absolutely love! This past Friday morning, I was able to go and fly for about an hour. We took off and flew around doing different turns, climbs, decents and even stalls. It was a great time and really made me want to get flying even more often!

In other, and much more exciting news, my sister got married this weekend! It was a great time setting up, taking pictures and seeing the service. We, as a family, had a great time together; at time that was greatly blessed.