What a few weeks it’s been!
Once again I have not been able to continue my blog series “Scraps of Life”. Instead, I have been helping my parents in Canada, as my mom prepared and moved to a nursing home there last week. It’s a lovely Christian facility and she needs their care. We are also supporting my dad as this change is hard on him.
Me with my mom on her first day in the nursing home.
After a week in the winter north land, I found spring had sprung in my yard when I returned to Kansas. I enjoyed working in the sunshine yesterday, fertilizing, cleaning up debree in the yard, and loving that the pansies wintered over in my greenhouse so well!
It turned out that on the first day of spring, as I went around to see what plants were beginning to recover from winter, and which ones weren’t, the words “Wake up oh sleeper” came to mind.
Spirea bushes are pretty sleepy yet.
Rose bush barely waking up.
Daffodils ready to bloom.
Hydrangea is leafing out.
Glorious pansies!
“Awake, Oh sleeper, rise from the dead, and Christ will give you light!” Ephesians 5:14
Reflection:
Spend a little time thinking about ways in which God might be inviting you to “awake”. Where do you need Christ to give you light? Talk with God about what you notice.
