A Year of Blessing - March 23, 2010

Yesterday Jacob ran into the house quite distraught. "Mema! The flowers are all laying on the ground! Can you pump them up again?!?!"

The snow had melted and left the daffodills quite wilted. He was not happy when I told him they couldn't be 'pumped up', and we would have to see if new ones would bloom. I do not have a green thumb or I could have told him to wait a day and they would 'pump' themselves up...for here they are, beginning to stand on their own again as if yesterday was just a time for rest!

Thank you God for showing me the difference a day can make! I can't wait until Jake gets home!

1 Peter 1:21-25 (The Message)

Your life is a journey you must travel with a deep consciousness of God. It cost God plenty to get you out of that dead-end, empty-headed life you grew up in. He paid with Christ's sacred blood, you know. He died like an unblemished, sacrificial lamb. And this was no afterthought. Even though it has only lately—at the end of the ages—become public knowledge, God always knew he was going to do this for you. It's because of this sacrificed Messiah, whom God then raised from the dead and glorified, that you trust God, that you know you have a future in God.

Now that you've cleaned up your lives by following the truth, love one another as if your lives depended on it. Your new life is not like your old life. Your old birth came from mortal sperm; your new birth comes from God's living Word. Just think: a life conceived by God himself! That's why the prophet said,

The old life is a grass life,
its beauty as short-lived as wildflowers;
Grass dries up, flowers droop,
God's Word goes on and on forever.
This is the Word that conceived the new life in you.