Hello Hope Patch Gardeners!
Talk about an abrupt turnaround in Spring! Yesterday, we received about 4 inches of snow in Streamwood, IL. In nearly mid-April. The tulip plants in our Hope Patch, which were about 7-8 inches high, are covered with snow. See the picture below.
I am disappointed that the weather took a turn for the worse and desire that the tulips survive and blossom. However, this is happening in a Hope Patch.
This is the time to reflect on the power and meaning of hope in the winter of life. There are times in life that events and expectations don’t turn out like we wish. Hope is the virtue of expecting that God will bring about new life despite all outward appearances.
If you’ve had some winter reappear in your garden or your life, may God grant you peace and joy and an abundance of hope in a new day ahead.
Dave Pipitone, author of The Rainbow Chronicles: A Bedtime Story for a New Day