Life as a Dusty Path...Spring will come again

"Life often seems like a dusty path that we walk day in and day out. But instead of being surrounded by flowers in bloom, we often find ourselves surrounded by heartache, disappointment and sadness. Maybe it's the loss of a job, a wayward child, or the death of a loved one that leaves a void so big and so painful you wonder if anything beautiful can ever come out of it.

"I don't know what surrounds your dusty path, but I know that God surronds mine. He is kind enough to send rain and bring forth such beauty that I am left in awe and wonder. He has proven to me that beauty can come from ashes.

"Life gives joy and sometimes takes it away. In moments of sadness, I look long and hard at the dry ground and wonder if life will ever spring from it again. It is then that I realize that God gives me a hope that doesn't fade. Through faith he tells me to keep walking on my dusty path and to look for the beauty, because it will surely come again.

"Will my path always be lined with flowers? No. They will fade and be replaced by the heartaches and disappointments of life, but those won't last forever, either. Spring will come again and the flowers will return. Someday I will walk among the fields of gold once more and will smile and say that life is good because God is good."

by Amy Bunt published in Country magazine February/March 2013, page 16