It's spring here and the warm weather is welcome. The trees and flowers are blooming and if you are from the south then you know that the dogwood trees are in full bloom. It is all so beautiful. AAhhhh spring....looking forward to lazy summer days....vacation relaxation. Wait! What is that that I see all over everything, no it can't be, oh yes it is. POLLEN. It is everywhere. A yellow-greenish film all over everything as far as you can see....it is amazing how quickly it can cover a city. I just went to sleep last night and this morning the film is everywhere. What's worse is that everyone's eye's are itching, we are all sneezing and blowing our noses and asthma sufferers can't go outside. Tissue sales sky rocket because everyone needs more tissues. It takes all the fun out of spring. We need a good rain to wash it away. When that rain comes you can watch the pollen wash down the street. It's amazing to watch it run down the street and into the gutters. Once again your car is white not yellowish green and you can go outside without sneezing your head off. Yes, the rain had washed it all away.

Much like life. We are so excited....our life looks so good on the outside. We have a good job, nice house, nice car, the perfect family. It all seems so right. But really there is a film all over our life that creates great misery and we need a rain to wash away the misery. That film is sin. It can be a secret sin.....addiction to porn, alcohol, credit cards, sex,....any number of things that ruin our lives. Oh we carry on outwardly. No one really knows that we have any problems but we know and sometimes we wonder how long we can carry on.

I've been in that position of the secrets, hiding things hoping that no one finds out and at the same time hoping that some one does find out so that it will all be over and out in the open. I would pray for a way out. If you are stuck in one of these situations and are praying for a way out, keep praying and know that you are not alone, God hears you and He has not forsaken you. It will all work out. It will not be easy.......The rain will come and wash all the pollen in your life down the gutters and someday things will be clean again. Like spring bursting forth, it can be painful....the buds burst out, the caterpillars burst into butterflys....it can all be painful. No one promised life would be easy and pain free. So look for the spring and wait for the rain that will come and wash away the pollen (sin) and once again make all things clean and new. It really will come. I know....I've seen it with my own eyes.