There is still over a month of winter still to go but already the daffodils are springing up and two baby lambs were born a couple of hours ago (see pix below). It’s awesome to see new life springing up in the midst of the bare trees, the dead leaves and in the midst of the rain and cold wind.
It’s a real risk for a lamb to be born in late winter, but if they survive they have the whole of spring and summer to grow and are in a great position by the time the weather changes again.
I think when ever we embark on new ventures such as starting a new house church etc, we are always looking for the perfect time and the perfect environment, and the perfect people etc. But let’s be real, these perfect conditions really happen.
Like those lambs huddling against there Mother outside in 5 degrees, sometimes we just have to weigh the odds and take the risk. Perhaps our ventures will be like the daffodil, in that they won’t last more than a couple of weeks, but risk nothing gain nothing. Even though the daffodil does not last long it sure is noticed!
Bill Hybels said that in the end the best way of training is by being thrown in the deep end. No matter how we minimise and avoid it by our planning, goals, strategies, sometimes we just have to jump in the deep end.
Perhaps its time for you and I to acknowledge the winter and do it any way!
