tea ponderings

There is something mystifying about the month of March.  For as long as I can remember March has brought sunshine and the ardor of spring which, in turn, leads to abounding happiness and joy on my end.  March cannot arrive in a more timely matter, for one more day of dreary-gray February and I would have started contemplating hibernation.  Lucky for me, God created February to be the shortest month of the year thus, only allowing my discomfort and hibernation ideas persist until the edge of the cliff never allowing them to tumble downward in a never-ending cartoon-ball-roll.  Don't get me wrong I do enjoy pieces of February (the superbowl, the restart of young life, Valentine's Day, February 28) but, those long sunless days in between add up very quickly.

But... March is here and I have nothing to fear.  March with its 2 sunny days so far and many more to come.  March with its blooming of flowers.  March with its beginnings of green.  I seem to even ENJOY the March snowfalls and the few gray, coffee and reading, days.  I have not yet figured out why, on March 1st, EVERYTHING seems brighter and more exciting in my life.  Maybe it is just my attitude towards it?  Maybe I am just inclined to see March as the beginning of new life in spring and not the final grip of a cold and frosty winter?  Maybe I have again decided to unseal my heart due to the prospect of spring and let God's "inexpressible and glorious joy" fill me? (1 Peter 1:8)

"You will go out in JOY and be lead forth in peace; the mountains and hills will burst into song before you, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands." Isaiah 55:12

Lord let my life be a reflection of your glorious joy, let my joy radiate out from me turning the world in to a place filled with the happiness of your love.  Turn my life in to Your musical!