After The Winter God Sends The Spring

 

"Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation.
The old has passed away.  Behold, the new has come!
(2 Corinthians 5:17)

Young Woman In The Field

(1894)

Hans Dahl

(1849-1937)

Norwegian painter

Springtime is a season

Of hope and joy and cheer.

There's beauty all around us

To see and touch and hear.

So no matter how downhearted

And discouraged we may be,

New hope is born when we behold

Leaves on a budding tree.

Or when we see a timid flower

Push through the frozen sod

And open wide in glad surprise

Its petaled eyes to God,

For this is just God saying,

"Life up your eyes to Me,

And the bleakness of your spirit,

Like the budding Springtime tree,

Will lose its wintry darkness

And your heavy heart will sing"-

For God never sends the Winter

Without the joy of Spring.

"After The Winter God Sends The Spring"
Helen Steiner Rice
(1900-1981)
Prolific American Christian poetess