Did you notice the beautiful spring blooms on many of the trees in the neighborhood last week? There was an amazingly pink, fluffy looking tree right next to the youth house, but it was only pink and fluffy looking for a matter of days. Then it was gone. Now I'm glad I appreciated the bloomy goodness while it lasted, because I can't help but wish the colors of spring would last just a few weeks longer. But maybe that's like wishing a birthday cake would last a little longer. Who would want to eat a crusty two-week old slice of cake? And eat it again the next day. And the next.
This reminded me of a talk I recently heard about our spiritual lives. One of the points that struck me was how to deal with dryness in your prayer life by remembering times of more fruitful prayer and spiritual sustenance. In other words, when we don't feel close to God, we should find hope and promise in the memory of a time when we did, for if we experienced consolation in the past, there's reason to hope we'll have it again--at some point--in the future.
So here's to anticipating next year's blooms and birthday cake...and whatever/whenever the next spiritual blessing will be. For just as all good things do, they will come from the benevolent hand of our Heavenly Father, in whom we place our hope.
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