full circle...(how does God do that?!)

30 days ago

 or so...

and the ground was so frosted

this little valentine rose bush

the only bloom of color

(indoor)

 I tried

a different lighting angle

with this broken down flash

every picture

still dark

(notice the bird feed pine-cone?)

and though I couldn't fix

the lighting

 each picture

is my personal

reminder...

When I can not see

God is still at work.

2002 little one got too "wiggly"

to come with me to youth. 

They all turned and watched her instead of him.

That's when I first met "her".

She told R that she would be happy to open the nursery

every week on that night.

She did.

Practical love.

Ten years later

so much is different

(and so much story left out)...

 little one, not so "wiggly" any more

now she has a turn to help 

 the same one

(who helped me)

then.

We hung the pine-cone bird treat

that cold day.

30 days

later

it looks like the birdies

snacked well ☺...

...the ground is thawing

little buds are growing

(where the summer pool will be)

color opens

everywhere...

God is always

working

...and I still wonder

at the mystery of this...

He has made everything beautiful in its time.

 Also, he has put eternity into man’s heart,

yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.

Ecclesiastes 3:11