Some winters seem to never end.  I remember one year in particular.  It was the year of the ice storms.  In addition to the ice we also had a blizzard in March with a lingering cold and dreary spring.  In Pennsylvania it is usually safe to start planting flowers after Mother’s Day, not this year.  It was still too cold.  When would it end?  When would we feel the warmth of the sun on our faces again?

You may be facing something right now that feels like winter will never end, as though an inescapable cloud has settled on your life making it difficult to see through to the sunshine.  The pain can seem too great to bear, the heartache too intense to breathe, the consequences too severe to face, or the diagnosis too grim to cope. Maybe this cloud is hovering over your home, affecting a meaningful relationship, or causing unexplainable fear?  Whatever it is, I know it can feel as though the sun has gone away, never to return.  In seasons like these it can be easy to lose hope.

To hope is to wait with confidence and expectation, trusting deliverance will come. 

But how can we find hope in a seemingly never ending winter? Continue reading “After Winter Always Comes Spring” →