cherry blossoms.

I'm totally in love with this tree in our yard. How lucky to buy a home that just so happens to have a beautiful and sweet-smelling cherry blossom tree included? Brings back memories of living in D.C., going for a run, admiring the cherry blossom trees which are literally everywhere. Now, this tree is not so lovely during the summer, fall, and winter months. It looks like a scraggly old hand with a thousand fingers. But in the spring for a few very short weeks, it looks stunning. Amazing how God gives us masterpieces like this to remind us how much he loves the world. That sometimes life is like a scraggly old hand for a time, but its purpose and beauty will appear eventually. When the time is right.

"Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us." {Ephesians 3:20}