A Letter from Your Editor

A Letter from Your Editor Spring is Here!

A gentle breeze blows softly through the fresh, new, vividly green leaves. The sweet scent of the first bluebell blooms fills the air with its wonderful fragrance. Sparrows and finches flit to-and-fro while singing their songs of joyful praise. Spring, the season of rejuvenation and rejoicing is here! The dull, dreary days of wintery gloom have finally passed, and once again, we’re surrounded by the nature’s beauty of new life. Colorful butterflies emerge from their carefully camouflaged, wintery cocoons. Spring, the season of rejuvenation and vibrant life has arrived! A pair of eagles take turns guarding their nest while waiting for their eggs to hatch. A mother bear with her young cubs ventures out of their den for the first time, and a deer carefully hides her young fawn among the tall, thick underbrush of the forest. Spring, the season of pleasant surprises and new life is here! Each of the five senses finds something to delight in with the season of spring. For it is a time when the eyes behold beauty and new life; the ears hear music and praise; fingers touch the delicate soft petals of newly bloomed roses; noses smell the wonderful flower’s perfume while lips taste the sweetness of the flower’s nectar. Daily we discover something new in God’s book of nature. And each new discovery reminds us of God’s love and artistic design. For the winter came before the spring. So in like manner, difficulties came before success. In order for there to be a time for joy and praise, there was a time of sorrow and sadness. And in order for there to be new life, there had to be death. In order to live a new life in Christ, we had to die to self. In order for us to be able to obtain eternal life, Jesus Christ had to sacrifice and die for us. But just Jesus had to die that we might live, He also lives so that we may live eternally. Spring, the season of reawakening and rededication is here!

By Aletia Thornton

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