What Really Starts It?

As I sit here and type this it is currently cloudy, breezy and cool outside from a recent storm system we have passing through.  It rained last night and there is more rain/snow in the forecast for the next day or so.  We had upper 60 degrees weather the last couple days which seemed to really 'motivate' a lot of people into the 'spring' mode; garden plans for the year, fertilizer needing to be put on the lawns, trimming up some tree branches and many other projects that have been waiting for a nice sunny day.  Spring has a way of bringing not only the new leaves and flowers out of trees and the new life that is born in the way of many critters but it brings people out too-they get motivated.  

   So, have you ever stopped to really think about what truly causes the trees to start budding out......

 and the grasses to start coming forth and seeds to spout?

   Scientifically speaking, we would say its the warmer, longer days and moisture that starts a chain reaction of the cells within the plants to start the process of growing, making food and seeds again(short paraphrase) etc....and to a point this is true......

 but really, what starts all of that?   How do the plants 'know' its time to wake up.....

or the horses bodies to start shedding all of that winter coat, the birds to start nesting and migrating back from there winter 'vacation' etc....?  As for me, there is really only one answer-God, He made it that way and I believe that He is constantly working in all the details of life-even the ones we seem to think are so little and are just 'expected' to happen because well, that what happens in the spring.  His creation though, speaks daily, loud and clear of His existence-we just need to stop long enough to look at it....

 and maybe pet it.........smell it.......sneeze........

 or play with it and in Hanks case, laugh as he tries to catch flying bugs or shadows or chase off the birds that are in the trees.......

and also give thanks for the many uses that we have been blessed with from His creation.  We get all of our physical needs met from the things that He has created.  Clothes, food, our homes, etc......We should never take these things for granted-its all a gift that can never be replicated by man-we're a creation too and use whats already been made to 'make' other things.

So, as your out getting busy with 'spring' projects, don't forget to give thanks for God's hand in the daily 'little ' things of 'spring' and maybe slow and stop and smell the tulips, daffodils and  crocuses.