According to an old adage, if you don’t like the weather, just give it five minutes and it will change! This seems to be particularly true here in east Tennessee.
After all, just a couple of weeks ago, we were experiencing the worst winter storm in memory, with nine inches of snow that was followed by freezing temperatures that lasted for eight straight days.
Conversely, we are now basking in comparatively balmy weather. For several days now, we have enjoyed sunny, 65 plus degree, short sleeve weather. Go figure!
Of course, I know it won’t last. If memory serves me correctly, prior to “Snowmageddon 2024”, the biggest snowfall we experienced in the last twenty years was when we once got ten full inches in March. Only that snowfall melted away quickly; whereas the most recent only refroze and stayed around for over seven days.
Given this, the old folks would call what we are now experiencing a “false spring”. Generations of wisdom had taught them that so much warmth so early in the year was inevitably destined to be followed by more winter weather.
And yet, whenever such cycles unfold, I, for one, am grateful. Not only can this brief respite be good for my psyche, as I am no longer cooped up inside, but it also provides the opportunity to get outside and undertake so many of those cherished tasks associated with that most beloved of seasons - summertime!
I say again – I know it won’t last. Not for now. Between today and the true advent of summer, many a cold day is in store. And yet, this week has been an invaluable reminder that such a day is indeed coming!
As I live out the days allotted to me in this world, such times as this remind me that there is coming a day when all my troubles will be behind me. That time is not yet. But it surely will come!
And when that time does come, I shall live forever in the warmth and light of one eternal day! Neither coldness nor darkness shall ever impact that day, wherein we shall dwell forever in the golden splendor of the “Day of the Lord”!
We know this because of the promise of God’s Word. As King David himself testified (in the Old Testament Book of Second Samuel, chapter, 23, verse 4), there is coming a day when we will experience “the morning light as the sun rises, like a morning without clouds, like the brightness after a storm.”
In the words of the accomplished songwriters Bill and Gloria Gaither…
There is coming a day,
When no heart aches shall come,
No more clouds in the sky,
No more tears to dim the eye,
All is peace forever more,
On that happy golden shore,
What a day, glorious day that will be.
Yes, indeed, what a day, glorious day that will be!
Amen!
HYMN SOURCES:
https://library.timelesstruths.org/music/Heavenly_Sunlight/;
https://hymnary.org/text/heavenly_sunshine_heavenly_sunshine?extended=false;
https://namethathymn.com/christian-hymns/what-a-day-that-will-be-lyrics.html.
SCRIPTURE SOURCES:
https://biblehub.com/2_samuel/23-4.htm.
After all, just a couple of weeks ago, we were experiencing the worst winter storm in memory, with nine inches of snow that was followed by freezing temperatures that lasted for eight straight days.
Conversely, we are now basking in comparatively balmy weather. For several days now, we have enjoyed sunny, 65 plus degree, short sleeve weather. Go figure!
Of course, I know it won’t last. If memory serves me correctly, prior to “Snowmageddon 2024”, the biggest snowfall we experienced in the last twenty years was when we once got ten full inches in March. Only that snowfall melted away quickly; whereas the most recent only refroze and stayed around for over seven days.
Given this, the old folks would call what we are now experiencing a “false spring”. Generations of wisdom had taught them that so much warmth so early in the year was inevitably destined to be followed by more winter weather.
And yet, whenever such cycles unfold, I, for one, am grateful. Not only can this brief respite be good for my psyche, as I am no longer cooped up inside, but it also provides the opportunity to get outside and undertake so many of those cherished tasks associated with that most beloved of seasons - summertime!
I say again – I know it won’t last. Not for now. Between today and the true advent of summer, many a cold day is in store. And yet, this week has been an invaluable reminder that such a day is indeed coming!
As I live out the days allotted to me in this world, such times as this remind me that there is coming a day when all my troubles will be behind me. That time is not yet. But it surely will come!
And when that time does come, I shall live forever in the warmth and light of one eternal day! Neither coldness nor darkness shall ever impact that day, wherein we shall dwell forever in the golden splendor of the “Day of the Lord”!
We know this because of the promise of God’s Word. As King David himself testified (in the Old Testament Book of Second Samuel, chapter, 23, verse 4), there is coming a day when we will experience “the morning light as the sun rises, like a morning without clouds, like the brightness after a storm.”
In the words of the accomplished songwriters Bill and Gloria Gaither…
There is coming a day,
When no heart aches shall come,
No more clouds in the sky,
No more tears to dim the eye,
All is peace forever more,
On that happy golden shore,
What a day, glorious day that will be.
Yes, indeed, what a day, glorious day that will be!
Amen!
HYMN SOURCES:
https://library.timelesstruths.org/music/Heavenly_Sunlight/;
https://hymnary.org/text/heavenly_sunshine_heavenly_sunshine?extended=false;
https://namethathymn.com/christian-hymns/what-a-day-that-will-be-lyrics.html.
SCRIPTURE SOURCES:
https://biblehub.com/2_samuel/23-4.htm.