First Day of Spring

Today is the first day of spring and our garden bore witness to that with full glory! Winter blooming flowers, like azalea and pink jasmine, still showed their brightest and best. Clivia, alstromoeria and roses stated spring has indeed sprung! Amidst the riot of color a young hummingbird that fledged from his nest just last week, fed himself happily at the red pentas growing next to the place where I sat praying. He isn’t yet strong enough to fly and feed non-stop and so he rests often. As I pray and watch him, he rests on a pentas branch, under leaves of his exact size and shape. The perfect camouflage. As I ask the Lord to grow me and mature me in love and knowledge of Him, the youngster’s mom flies over and feeds him! It seems her job is not finished when her young ones fledge and always knows just where they are and when they’re in need.

And neither is God’s job finished with us, regardless of how long we’ve been growing in our faith. He will feed us when He knows that the struggle ahead is too much for us. He will give us just what we need when our physical and spiritual reserves have been taxed to the limit. He is faithful, the best Father one can ever hope to have, carefully watching to be sure we grow up strong.

On this first day of spring 2014, how have you seen your Heavenly Father’s care for you? May you rejoice in knowing that “I can do all things through Him who strengthens me.” Philippians 4:13