"Are you dead?"

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It seemed like it happened overnight.

One day, my yard is brown and gray. No green sprigs. Obviously dead. The maple and Bradford pear trees are just tall sticks with arms reaching heaven-ward, but with no leaves, no sign of life. Obviously dead.

Then one day it just happens. Miraculously. Almost overnight. The yard takes on a hint of green. Not a lot, but enough. The heaven-ward reaching arms of the maple trees turn red on their tips. Just a little, but enough. The Bradford pear trees hold up their arms looking like somebody stuck cotton puffs on them. Not huge ones, but enough.

Enough for me to know that they’re not dead. That there’s still life in them. And that that life is about to surge, then emerge, in a wonderful display of spring.

If not today, then some day soon, you’ll have a tough morning. And you’ll feel like there’s no life in you. That you’re dead. Remind yourself that you still have life in you—God—and watch as God surges, emerges, and then springs forth life in you. Listen to that life and make a life, not just a living, okay?

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