I think I've just been more cooped up than usual, with not wanting to bring Grace into the cold weather. During a typical winter, Luke and I will still do lots of outside activities, such as hiking and ice fishing. This past year, however, it feels like we've been in hibernation mode- we didn't go ice fishing once!
So, I've been long overdue for serious outdoor time, and this past week I finally got it. We've been enjoying lots of time outside going for walks and getting our balcony garden organized. I was cleaning out some rubbish in my herb garden when I noticed our first element of green- chives! Yup, my trusty chives have come back yet again.
If you don't have a green thumb, plant chives. They're practically impossible to kill and come back every year with absolutely no effort required- a real ego booster!
We also have a mysterious sprout coming out from our orange tree pot. I'm not sure if it's a growth from the orange tree or an out-of-place seed, but time will tell.
A hint of good things to come!
Chives are seriously the easiest thing to grow.
They come back effortlessly every year!
Our mysterious sprout.
It might be part of the orange tree, but I'm thinking it might be a sunflower
from our bird feeder. We shall see!
"Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature:
old things are passed away;
behold, all things are become new."
2 Corinthians 5:17
Dead-looking brown straw will become lush green grass, my hydrangea bush (currently a collection of twigs) will produce gorgeous blue blossoms with emerald leaves, and pea tendrils will curl out of brown soil in a tangle of sprouts. These reminders of life will "spring" out of what previously looked dead.
Food for thought for Christians- do people look at your life and see a "new creature"? Can people tell that you are "in Christ" or do you look and act like a pile of dead grass?
Keep Growing!
Jen
