Spring is coming!

I'll admit it, I have been right there with the majority complaining lately about the weather. I've most likely even been the one to bring it up once or a dozen times a day. (Pretty sure I even wrote a post about it just a week ago.) My body seems to be completely intolerable to cold weather. I often joke about moving to a much warmer climate eventually, or maybe it's not a joke, time will tell. The cold weather just makes me feel miserable. And the truth is we have been spoiled the past few years with our winters. While we had a few wintery events we had many above average days mixed in to seemingly balance it all out. So now when we have a real winter is seems so hard.

So yesterday as I'm driving  home from work and it's 13 degrees without the windchill, I started repeating to myself one more day, more day. Because you can do that mid February,  you can see the forecast and see that the odds of it continuing to be bitterly cold are coming to an end. You can know that soon 30's and 40's will be considred cold, then 50's and before you know it summer's here and spring has passed us by. And lets not get started on the flooding and tornadoes spring often brings. But I digress. I'm driving along repeating one more day, one more day, when I realize how ungrateful this probably sounds to God.

We live in one of the most unique climates in the world. You've probably heard people say if you don't like the weather in Southern Illinois just wait until tomorrow. And it's so true. I'ts always changing. We are fortunate to get to experience the dramatic changing of seasons. Seeing God's power displayed so prominently, and in so mnay different ways. Emerging flowers, budding tress, greening grass all from the rains of spring. Warm sunshine, flowers in full bloom, birds and butterflies of summer. Red, yellow and orange leaves blanketing the ground in the fall. And yes even the cold air that ushers in the snow and ice of winter. All displaying the beauty that is God!

So while I'm not saying you will never again hear me complain about the bitter cold, the week of rain or humidity that steals your breath when you walk outside. I will try to remember who gave us this day. Remember who ordained this day just as it is and be thankful rather than wishing it away. Look for the beauty on display each day.