Everlasting Spring

“You will go forth and skip about like calves from the stall.” Malachi 4:2

The coming of spring causes everyone to get excited, but none more than farmers. When my husband was a farmer, he couldn’t wait for spring’s first signs around our farm--softened ground, small tufts of green grass in the pastures, and most welcome of all, a warm, gentle breeze.

Our dairy cows appeared just as anxious for spring. Standing at the edge of the dry cement lot, they lifted their noses to smell the sweet clover in the fields. When we removed the barbed-wire fence surrounding the lot, their clumsy bodies bumped each other in an intense desire to escape.

Then, they were off! The scene reminded me of a Boston marathon for cows. Old and young alike leaped into the air in their eagerness to be free.

Malachi prophesied that on the day of the Lord’s coming those who feared Him would skip about jubilantly. I can’t wait to kick up my feet in welcome of the end of life’s long struggle. It gives me courage to press on.

God, help me remember through life’s struggles that it isn’t long until You’ll come for me and I’ll be carefree and happy.

Will you be happy when the Lord returns again?

Take care,
Kayleen Reusser