Many years ago I came across a quote from somebody that “God created time to keep everything from happening at once.” I will add to that the idea that God created the weather seasons to keep our life adventuresome and never boring. That is definitely true here in Missouri where we celebrate the seasons to an extreme, and sometimes more one season over and over at different times! My favorite season is always the one we’re in at any given time, but spring especially brings joy to me with its constant stream of promises. Every seed the gardeners plant, every bud that appears in my husband’s hanging baskets around our yard, proclaim the promise of new life. The bright daffodil pokes its yellow head up through the ground and seems to illuminate the grey twigs and leaves that have kept it buried for months. The purple crocus appears in the most unlikely places to remind us again of the change of the seasons. Gospel song writer Bill Gaither penned a song several years ago called “Th