Today was such a gorgeous day. It was warm and the sun was out, yet there was a cool breeze at times that almost made it feel like fall again (which happens to be my favorite season). But the birds were chirping in a way that you knew it was spring. It was wonderful. I drove with the windows down on my way home from church this afternoon and had them open again as I went back to church for the class I was teaching. It was absolutely heavenly.
Indiana has really weird winters for me, since I grew up in Wisconsin which was simply cold and snowy (the area where I grew up set a record this year with 82 inches of snow). But here, it’s weird. One day it’s in the single digits and snow, to ice and freezing rain the next, to 60 degrees the next, followed by single digits again. There is no predictability to it at all; it’s a meteorological roller-coaster.
And that got me thinking…Indiana weather is the way we live our lives. Our emotions and feelings ride that same roller-coaster—we have our good days and our bad days and our blah days and our in-between days. And that’s okay—we were designed to have and feel all of those emotions and feelings. But I praise God for His presence in my life so that I have more good days than bad days. And I have a joy deep within that no feeling can take away; it doesn’t matter what happens in life. Sure I have my down days, but I don’t lose that joy.
So, for those of us here in Indiana, don’t get so upset that we live on this meterological roller-coaster. Enjoy the ride—enjoy the highs, the lows, the corkscrews. Instead of being upset that it was 60 degrees today and we’re going to be under a Winter Storm Warning tomorrow, be thankful we saw a glimpse of spring before it was time.
For those of you who don’t know Christ, get to know Him…it’ll change your life. You’ll still have all the emotions and feelings, but in those down days—with the joy of the Lord within you—it doesn’t feel as bad. It’s like a glimpse of spring.
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