it's a crazy world we live in.  for weeks only a few small green shoots were brave enough to try their hardest to break through the bare brown forests covering the mountainsides.  the creek banks were empty and you could see straight through the trees to the composting leaves and branches below.  then in about 5 days, seemingly overnight really, the mountains exploded.  there is not one tree in sight who has yet to put on its new spring outfit and the milkweed on the banks of the creeks and rivers is all of a sudden 5 feet tall or greater.  once again i am surrounded by walls of green.  i have missed it.  thats about as close as i can figure to what God was talking about when He spoke though isaiah saying,

"[12] For you shall go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and the hills before you shall break forth into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands." - [isaiah 55:12]

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