Even the trees will clap their hands

It's flower season again and I am so excited! 

I've literally been dreaming about working with flowers again.

My mentor has already done a few weddings this season and I got to help out a couple times. 

This is just a little experimenting I did with some of the leftovers.

"The earth laughs in flowers" - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Jake and I were talking about this quote the other day and it got us thinking about the passage in Romans 8 about the earth:

18 For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. 19 For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God. 20 For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it in hope; 21 because the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. 22 For we know that the whole creation groans and labors with birth pangs together until now. 23 Not only that, but we also who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, eagerly waiting for the adoption, the redemption of our body. 24 For we were saved in this hope, but hope that is seen is not hope; for why does one still hope for what he sees? 25 But if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly wait for it with perseverance.

Just imagine it! The earth is going to be restored just as we have the hope of having a resurrected body! What will that look like? Well, we know the trees will clap their hands and instead of thorns and briers there will be trees (Isaiah 55:12-13) So, what kind of flowers will there be when God makes all things new?!! I'm quite certain they will be breathtaking.

I want to keep this hope ever before me. 

God, let me always be reminded of Your eternal promises and long for Your return, just as the earth itself groans and waits! I need that perseverance in the waiting.