Day 1: Blooming Faith

GOOD MORNING MAY!

I love MAY.

It is a BLOOMING month.

For April showers bring MAY FLOWERS.

But what if showers haven't brought

the FLOWERING yet,

 does that mean FLOWERS don't exist?

Oh not at all.

Just because you can't

SEE HOPE

 does it mean it is not there?

 "We continue to shout our praise

 even when we’re hemmed in with troubles,

because we know how troubles can develop passionate patience in us,

and how that patience in turn

 forges the tempered steel of virtue,

keeping us alert for whatever GOD will do next. In alert expectancy such as this,

we’re never left feeling shortchanged.

 Quite the contrary~

we can’t round up enough containers

to hold everything GOD generously pours into our lives

 through the HOLY SPIRIT!"

(Romans 5:5, MSG).

Just because you can't

SEE the HOLY SPIRIT,

doesn't mean HE is not there.

For April showers DO bring MAY FLOWERS~.

 "For now [in this time of imperfection]

we see in a mirror dimly [a blurred reflection, a riddle, an enigma],

 but then [when the time of perfection comes we will see reality]

 face to face.

 Now I know in part [just in fragments],

but then I will know fully,

 just as I have been fully known [by GOD]"*

Just because you can't

SEE ETERNITY,

doesn't mean

HE is not here,

Oh SMELL the FLOWERS

for they are always here,

because

GOD IS IN THE SHOWERS,

because

 GOD IS

IN the rain

 IN the sun

IN the clouds

and

IN the moon.

How is that possible?

Because GOD made the rain

&

GOD made the sun

&

GOD made the clouds

&

GOD made the moon.

GOD is EVERYWHERE,

BLOOMING EVERYWHERE.

HE is in your tears.

HE is in your laughs.

Because GOD is GOD

and GOD is GOOD,

because that is all who GOD can be.

Therefore,

even when you can't see the

 FLOWERS

they will

BLOOM

REAL HOPE

REAL JOY

REAL PEACE, 

wherever LIFE has you planted,

when you remain

PLANTED IN CHRIST~

"FAITH [abiding trust in GOD and HIS promises],

HOPE [confident expectation of eternal salvation],

LOVE [unselfish love for others growing out of GOD'S love for me],

these three [the choicest graces];

 but the greatest of these is LOVE"*

 (1 Corinthians 13:12-13, AMP).

GOD'S GROWING LOVE

BLOOMS ALWAYS.

Oh my friend,

April SHOWERS do bring

MAY FLOWERS

even in the middle of a drought.

Just look up and ASK the CREATOR of the RAIN~

"Bring me joy, bring me peace.Bring the chance to be free.Bring me anything that brings YOU glory.And I know there'll be daysWhen this life brings me pain.But if that's what it takes to praise YOU" **

Therefore,

STOP,

LOOK,

and

LISTEN,

and you will experience

GOD'S IMMEASURABLY MORE

and

BLOOM WHERE YOU ARE PLANTED!

Oh*"JESUS, BRING ME THE RAIN"

(listen to the song below)