Spring- the trees have started budding, promising a full, vigorous foliage. Why? A simple, even slight turn or tilt of the world, changes things to winter or renews growth. So I have found in the Christian walk. Salvation comes in like springtime, all fresh and budding, holding promises of the abundant life with Jesus Christ. But it doesn't end there. Life is not all blooming roses and sunshine. Plants need light to grow. So do we. We need the Light with a capital "L." We need the Light of the world. We need that Light within us for, unlike the trees and other plants, sometimes our faith has to grow in the dark. Some time in the dark, all we have is that faith in the eternal springtime as promised by our Lord. When the world turns dark, the light God put within us is all we have to find our way through the storms and disasters life inflicts upon us. T "Faith is the bird that sings in the dark." Tr...