Gun’s Quote-of-the-Week:
“Spring shows what God can do with a drab and dirty world.”
-Virgil Kraft
You’ve seen them on Facebook and Twitter, too. They are the
statuses and tweets that talk about whether or not winter will ever end, what
happened to spring, “Missing Seasons Reports” and, of course, the decree of a
Pennsylvania prosecutor indicting Punxsutawney Phil for “fraudulently ‘predicting’
an early spring.”
You really can’t blame people, though. The snowfall this
week ruined countless Midwestern gardens, put farmers in a terrible bind, set
back road construction and in some places even caused wrecks due to the ice on
the roads. In one week Kansas City
saw a semi fall off a bridge on the highway below and a toppled garbage truck
on a major Interstate. People have had enough.
When will winter end?
The odd weather has exacerbated the feelings that every
student in the nation has. “When will Summer Break get here?” “When will
graduation get here?” “When will I get a job?”
There are lots of people who have been living their winters
for a while now, too.
“When will my son get home from Afghanistan ?”
“When will I be employed again?”
“How long do I have to live with my parents to make ends
meet?”
“When will I ever meet that special someone?”
“When will the pain go away?”
“How will I ever conquer this addiction?”
At some point in time we will all have a run-in with this
thing we call “Despair.” Sometime it visits us because of our own mistakes or
inaction. Sometimes it is befallen upon us because of the actions of another.
Sometimes it’s both. Be is physical, emotional, spiritual or social, there are
times when part of our lives seemingly are just dead and hope is lost.
Like the winter.
Here’s the strange thing, though. It will end. The birds
will refuse to stay down south. The grass will grow. The sun will shine again.
The air will be filled with the aroma of the flowers. The temperature will
rise. Death will lose as it gives way to the new life of budding trees,
chirping birds and thick lawns.
Perhaps you are in a deep winter yourself. A season that
transcends the cold, wet weather, bare trees and shoveling snow. Take hope.
Take courage. Know that this, too, shall pass and that things will always turn
around.
If God can take a dead planet and fill it with the life of
spring, just imagine what he can do inside of a human heart.
…and that’s why it’s a Gun’s Quote!
