Spring is coming!

After our snow storm just one week ago, temps have risen and spring is making its comeback. Watch for photos of my daffodils in the slideshow feature to the right.

My daffodils have put on the best show yet. I have been planting daffodils for nearly fours years. This year you can see the pay-off. This year's blooms include about 6 new varieties that I got while visiting the boys in TX and hunting the sale bins at Home Depot at the end of the season. I didn't expect much from this new bulbs this year since I planted so late, but I have been surprised at the number of new blooms even though the bulbs haven't been in the ground long. I'm also glad the moles, voles, and squirrels did not make tasty winter meals of them.

Yesterday I planted snow peas and green peas, although I'm planting them about 2-3 weeks late. I'm hoping they will make before the heat burns them up. Today I will plant lettuces, spinach, and Swiss chard. The years of adding the best horse manure in Lawrance County to my beds is also paying off. The soil in my raised beds is so loose and dark and warm and airy, I'm afraid to drop a toothpick for fear it will root and sprout! Gardeners--always optimistic and they can lie like fishermen.

Today in Youth Sunday School I taught Psalm 93. One of the verses there was once used by the church to "prove" that the earth was the center of the solar system and every other heavenly body revolved around it. But, the Hebrew writer had no such "modern" physics in mind. Instead, God in his sovereignty created a world stable enough for God to rule over and stable enough for His work to thrive. Creation is the display case where God's common and special grace is manifest. This verse spoke to me as I thought about one season giving way to the next, God's plan and order always evident and always working. God is in charge. Period. He has proven his sovereignty so well we can trust this great God with all things.