It's Spring!
It’s spring! The vernal equinox on March 20th marks the time when we have days and nights in equal proportions — exactly 12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of darkness.
When spring arrived in Northwest Missouri where I grew up, it was marked with sprouts of early flowers — crocuses, hyacinths, and daffodils. As the flowers broke through the winter-hardened soil, they brought new life to what had seemed so dead and lifeless just days before.
In the northern climate where I currently live, ground-breaking plants are nowhere near ready to pop up their colorful heads. We still have many feet of snow waiting to be melted by the warm sunshine. It will be another month before we will enjoy seeing spring flowers.
Nancy Kohrs’ devotion, “New Growth — Again” (on the LWML website), brings the message that “new growth” in God’s kingdom is all His doing. What a wonderful reminder of the many blessings God has given — especially new life in Christ as our Lord and Savior.
