It's been a hot minute since I've shared pictures on this "Where HOPEISM Blooms" blog of mine.
This is where I share my photography and thoughts about those pictures.
It's been a rainy week here in Houston - but I managed to get a quick walk in at the Nature Trail between rainbands.
I came across this scene and just had to stop and stare.
Many do not like winter -- the stripped down barren of it.
The cold, the windy, the rainy of it.
The cooped up inside of it.
But I love it.
All of it.
It's in the winter where I can reflect on the solitude, the serenity, the Savior!
I think that's maybe why I love it so much --- there's no farming to do in the winter, no garden to tend to, no swimming at lakes or other things that grab our attention in those other months.
Winter -- that is the Savior's Season - and though Jesus is not thought to have been born when we celebrate it in December -- perhaps HE purposefully planned for us to celebrate it then because of those very reasons.....
It's slower in the Winter.
This is HIS season.
To give up that HOPEISM of Spring.
A friend once told me regarding a hard hike, "Stay in the mile you're in". I'm not sure I quoted that exactly, but I love that sentiment.
Stay in the Season you're in.
Savor it.
Learn from it.
The stripped down bare and bland of it.
Spring, and its coat of many beautiful colors is coming soon enough.
Savor the serene.
The beauty in the ugly of it if you will.
The dead branches, bushes, flowers, will give way to new growth, new blooms.
I just marvel at the HOPEISM of winter.
A chance to prune away the old.
And prepare the way for the new!
