Author Darlene J Conard

During my morning walk at 8: 00, I stopped along the way to admire the flourishing of spring. Everything is so beautiful! From the sun kissing the mountains to the soft teasing breeze through the blossoming trees it all shouted, “Oh how great Thou art!” Everything is becoming new. That’s what spring right, becoming new?

For the new to come, the old must be dead and gone. New life for a new season! In August 1999 when my knees hit the floor as I surrendered to God, my life belonged to Him. I tried leading my own life creating chaos for myself. “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 KJV) I have learned tremendously that it’s a fight.

“God, I didn’t know it would be like this?”

He asked me, “Would it have mattered?” I quickly knew it wouldn’t have because I did and always will need Him.

We are going to go through seasons of devastation. We will go through God cutting off our rough edges, so we are more like Jesus.  We are going to experience joy, and peace, succumbing to His power. Abandonment is something we may feel during trials, but it’s not true. God is with us always!

“No man putteth a piece of new cloth unto an old garment, for that which is put in to fill it up taketh from the garment, and the rent is made worse. Neither do men put new wine into old bottles: else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish: but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved.” Matthew 9:16-17 KJV

Be encouraged, I know it’s difficult when pain is screaming back at you, hold on to God’s unchanging hand Beloved.

Thank you, Tommy Bailey, for permission to use your beautiful photography! God bless you!

Sunset Fox River Northern Michigan © Thomas Bailey Photographer

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