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I have some friends who are hurting beyond hurt right now — relationships in tatters, health in the tank, money woes to beat the band.  They can’t see beyond the mid-winter, midnight darkness and cannot imagine a coming time of renewal, regeneration and new life.  Can’t blame them; it’s hard to imagine.  BUT …

 

I have a yucca plant outside my front door.  Last February (remember, this is Frozen Tundra, Wisconsin), it was shriveled, dead, gone, covered in snow.  (I know, this is my second plant analogy this month, and me a brown-thumb failed master gardener!)  This morning, in mid-summer, I walked past it and was stopped dead in my tracks.  This plant is bursting with several dozen yellow-cream flowers … a riot of beauty and life.

 

My point:  It’s about hope … which is beyond our imagination or our logic.  If you are stuck in darkness, just wait.  Winter does not go on forever; night eventually bursts into dawn, a new day.  Hang tough and never give up.  God knows what He is doing, even if we don’t. — jri

 

“Who would have thought my shriveled heart

Could recover greenness?

        –    George Herbert