Impatiently Awaiting

Yes, it's official - Monday's snow pushed me beyond my breaking point. I have never been more ready for springtime and consistently warmer temperatures in all my life! Now don't get me wrong, I generally enjoy a good snowfall in December or January. However, when I get a taste of spring like we've had on occasion during February and March, I don't want to go back to bitter cold after that. And this year, it seems as though we have been on a roller coaster ride of cold days, warm days, and back to snow days. I have grown to truly despise snow. Spring turkey season will be here soon, and when I see flocks of birds out in the fields feeding and strutting on sunny mornings this time of year, I begin anticipating that spring will soon be here. But every time I think spring is upon us, here comes another round of snow. I suppose that spring is one of those things that we know is eventually coming, and we will know it's here once it is fully upon us, but until that time, there is always a chance that we could get another late winter rogue snow storm to throw us off balance again and delay its arrival.

1 Thessalonians 5:1-6 (NASB)
Now as to the times and the epochs, brethren, you have no need of anything to be written to you. For you yourselves know full well that the day of the Lord will come just like a thief in the night. While they are saying, “Peace and safety!” then destruction will come upon them suddenly like labor pains upon a woman with child, and they will not escape. But you, brethren, are not in darkness, that the day would overtake you like a thief; for you are all sons of light and sons of day. We are not of night nor of darkness; so then let us not sleep as others do, but let us be alert and sober.