Everything Good

It's almost here...I know it.  Spring is only a few short weeks away, and that's a happy thought that makes my heart smile.  I love this time of year, when the earth seems to be holding it's breath, awaiting glorious new life and growth.  Today was one of those "teaser days", and I took full advantage of it...grabbed my camera and my bike and headed to my favorite trail up the river.  

Usually I'm a firm believer in social exercise (who doesn't agree that running and swimming and skiing are much more fun with friends? :), but biking is my absolute favorite way to exercise, and I don't mind doing it by myself...it's such a great time to think, and talk to God, and hear from Him.  And today I took my camera along because the photographer side of me can get a little starved by the end of winter - I'm looking for any excuse to use my camera that I can find.

So...I decided today that it's still a bit early in the season to capture any stunning landscape photos. :) But, God did speak some things to my heart as I was enjoying the warm air and sun.

He reminded me, again, that there is beauty in every season of life, if I am looking for it.

And sometimes, we do have to look for it...hard.  It may look like winter in your soul, feel like winter in everything that is going on around you.  But, I guarantee you, because our God is so very good, there are good things happening, too...promises of the spring that is just around the corner.  We just have to look a little harder for them...slow down, get off the bike, stop rushing through each day...and look for the beautiful bits of life that are persisting in spite of the deadness we feel.

I've been listening to a song lately called Everything Good, by the Christian group Ashes Remain.  I heard it on the radio a week or two ago, and the lyrics, especially the chorus, stuck with me, reminding me of Truth I need to be thinking on at this time in my life.  Here is the chorus:

You're everything good, everything True

When all the world is fading, You're everything new

You are my eyes, when I can't see

When all the world is broken, You will always be

Everything good.

Everything good.  I can only speak for myself, but knowing this about God...that He is good...brings such peace and trust.  He is good, and is working all things in my life to be good in the end (Rom.8:28).  And in times of my life when I feel like "spring" is never going to come, days like today remind me that it's just a season...signs of spring are all over the place. :)  

And somehow the road ahead isn't as scary...unknown, yes, but I know the One Who walks it with me.

"Taste and see that the Lord is good..." (Psalm 34:8)

Rachel Elisabeth