SPRING!

I am thankful for spring. It seems like spring peeks her face out just when you think winter will never end.

Don't you just love spring? I do. I love to see the new growth. Even if it is weeds.

I have my geraniums blooming in Andee's room and my kitchen window sill. I've started some mini petunias and they are growing in Andee's room too! I feel like such a gardener when things grow for me!

In February my violas that survived the winter started to bloom. Now my daffodils are up and opening. My crocus are too. Next the tulips will open and the pansies will bloom too. YIPPEE!

Spring also reminds me of the promise of the Resurrection. In Primary on Sunday I shared this with the children too. I told them that when we place the bulbs in the ground in the fall it is like when the Savior was placed into the tomb. We have to trust and have faith that the bulb will come forth in the spring just as the apostles and disciples of Christ had to have faith that He would rise from the dead as He had promised.

The thrill that runs through my veins when I see the first bulbs poking through the soil and those first blooms is wonderful. I am also thankful to my Savior for the promise that the resurrection holds for me. Because of His suffering in Gethsemane I can be forgiven of my sins, if I repent, and because of His resurrection I also have the promise of my body and spirit being reunited with my body. Of course, the separation has not yet happened, but as part of Heavenly Father's plan, we all must taste of death. What a precious gift His has made possible.