Welcome Spring

 Welcome Spring

Spring has come when:

woodchucks

pop up

from their burrows

to see their shadows.

Spring has come when:

robins

sing

a happy song

all day long.

Spring has come when:

skunks

dump

the junk

in their trunks.

Spring has come when:

the air smells fresh

and flowers dress

after spring showers

everything covers.

Spring has come when:

red-winged black birds

are daily heard

announcing springs' return

early every morn.

Spring has come when:

temperatures warm

as the shining sun

rises earlier

and sets later.

Spring has come when:

gardeners cheer

and gardens are cleared.

It's a date;

they're not late.

Spring has come when:

the sun rises

and surprises

await to be found

and miracles abound.

* * * * *

It's spring

when everything

is new again!

Something else is new every day and not just in passing.

It's God's great love, his mercy, for us – His compassion -

daily, each and every day the whole day long it's lasting.

Yes, the Lord is faithful

even when we're unfaithful.

God forgives when in prayer we call.

Something new will surely spring

when to the Lord you bring

your afflictions and wanderings.

So pray, hope, seek, and wait

and you'll find God is great

and He will never be late.

Wait for the Lord to deliver you

from whatever you're going through.

He will remain faithful to you.

You can start new again.

Your heart will again sing

joyful songs of thanksgiving.

I remember my affliction and my wandering,

the bitterness and the gall.

I well remember them, and my soul is downcast within me.

Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope.

Because of the Lord's great love we are not consumed,

for his compassions never fail.

They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.

I say to myself, “The Lord is my portion; therefore I will wait for him.”

The Lord is good to those whose hope is in him, to the one who seeks him;

it is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord.

Lamentations 3:19-26

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