Breaking for Spring

This week is spring break in South Texas. The kids are out of school. I am not tutoring. As I began thinking about this post, I was concentrating on the negatives of what can happen when teens gather on the beaches over this break. But that is not what I really wanted to be writing here. I decided it will be better to be praying for these young people instead, that God will touch them in His ways, for I know that He hears my prayers and the prayers of many others.

“Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, declares the Lord GOD. Repent and turn from all your transgressions, lest iniquity be your ruin (or stumbling block). Ezekiel 18:30

On the other side of Spring break is Spring. We see it in our year with little yellow and lavender flowers sprouting in clumps; the Texas Mountain Laurel is blooming like it has NEVER bloomed before. The grass grows so quickly due to all the rain we have had in the past many months that mowing is required often. My husband has mown around the flowers, leaving them to scream their little bright and cheery heads off while the yard looks maintained, to some delightful degree.

Spring just may have sprung down here. I hope that the rest of the country is having a reprieve from this harsh winter by now too.

For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land; The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Song of Solomon 2:11-13a

I praise You, Father, for the beauty of this earth, for the fragrance of Your Mountain Laurels, for the bright yellows of these tiny flowers. You made Heaven and Earth to pronounce Your Glory. I see it all around me this day, choosing to see Your beauty and to lift Your children of all ages, especially those of teen and young adult ages, to You. Father, protect them from satan. Guard them with Your legions of angels all around. I pray that Your saving grace touch each one to their very core that they will turn from any ways that are not of You. May they see Your Son clearly and know Your ways are the ways of truth, love, and beauty. I thank You Father for hearing this prayer. In Your Son’s Name, I give thanks. Amen.