I was told the week after I got home from Golden Week that we weren't going to have a spring because it snowed during Golden Week. It would go from winter into summer. But it's been a little over 2 weeks since the last snowfall (ridiculous), and it's spring.
How do I know?
1) The cherry blossoms have FINALLY bloomed. It's absolutely beautiful to find find giant soft pink trees exploding with flowers on my drive to school each morning.
2) It's warming up. I actually broke a sweat today. And I was dying in my classroom teaching today. It hit 20C today! It felt amazing. Even walking to work this morning it felt warm. It was glorious.
3) Pegleg's flowers are starting to bloom. After the harvest of all the veggies in early November, Pegleg started planting again. I asked him what he was planting, but he said it was a surprise and I would have to watch and wait. So I watched and waited. I watched the garden get covered in meters of snow. How could anything grow? But now the garden in front of our houses is full of tulips that are about to burst into bloom. The daffodils along the edges of the garden have already bloomed and their bright yellow faces bring so much cheer to my otherwise plain front yard.
4) The sun is out when I wake up and when I come home from work. I remember when the sun wasn't up when I would go to work and it would set before I could even get back to the office. What a change! It's amazing!
5) I got caught in a spring storm without an umbrella. Warm rain suddenly pouring down. It's one of my favorite things in the world. I ran through the parking lot wishing I could just run in the rain (but I was at school and I'm sure the teachers and students would've thought I went crazy if they saw me running around in the rain in the parking lot). It's amazing to get caught in spring storms. I just love it!
This morning as I leisurely walked to work soaking in the beauty of a lovely spring morning I thanked God for allowing me to experience seasons. He reminded me in that moment that it was only a season. My homesickness is only a season. My struggles are only a season. Spring is only a season. It will come and it will go. But God? God doesn't change. He is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow. And that's more beautiful than blooming cherry blossoms ever could be. Because the blossoms will blow away in maybe a week or two, but He will stay. He will stay through the winter, through the storms, through life and He will carry me Home.
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