Welcome Spring!

Time to wake up little flowers. Here are some shots of my first spring flowers and buds! So exciting after this long winter. I'm thankful for this new life that appears each year! I don't have to water, fertilize or tend these little buds. They just keep coming back each year. A little like God's love for us. Sometimes we ignore it but it just keeps coming back to us! When we realize it, it's kind of like Spring all over again!.

Look Up!

Look teacher, "I can look up, I can look side to side but I can't look down." This is what one of my students told me in line as we were waiting for dismissal! As he told me, I watched his eyes look in all those different directions. I'm not sure why he said that he couldn't look down. Yet, isn't that so like a child? Young children don't often get depressed because they are always noticing the little things and appreciating them. Today the leak in the ceiling was much more interesting to my students than my lesson on measuring time!

I need to remember to keep looking up and around at all the things God is doing, can do or will do. However, why look down? "Just shoes down there", my student said.

Now unto Him who is able to do immeasurable more than all you ask or imagine according to His power which is at workin in us! Ephesians 3:20,21

Psalm 119:148- My eyes stay open through the watches of the night, that I may meditate on your promises.

Ephesians 1: 18- I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints and his incomparably great power for us who believe.

Matthew 6:22- The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are good, your whole body will be full of light.