Reflection On The Spirit Of Life

The beginning of spring means the grass is turning green and the flowers are blooming. It also means lingering colds from the cool, wet weather, and annoying allergies caused by the fresh plants. Despite all this, I love the new growth that comes with spring. My favorite type of flower are definitely tulips. These flowers are some of the first to bloom, brightening up the sleeping world of plants around them. Tulips remind me of my childhood home. I remember the day my family planted daffodil and tulip bulbs in the flower bed in front of our house. My parents told me that the flowers would come up every year, and we would not have to replant. Sure enough, the flowers sprouted and bloomed every spring. The colors of the tulips amazed me: hot red, deep purple, baby pink, and orange with streaks of yellow. The smell was fragrant and not overwhelming. Tulips are simply beautiful. This Easter weekend, I began wondering if the tulip had some sort of significant meaning to the Resurrection, other than the clique “spring plants represent new life, just as Jesus

3 For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, 4 in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit…31 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be[i]against us?...37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our