Hope

I was at an empty, foreclosed house today.

I walked around the inside.  It was cold and stinky.  I walked around the outside.  It was rainy and muddy.

At the back of the house I did a double-take.  Look what I found!  Hope!  I know they are flowers.  But aren’t the first spring flowers just a great sign of hope?  They sure feel like it.

Tonight I am thankful for a small moment today of finding these little signs of hope springing in the most un-hopeful of places!