The flowers live by the tears that fall
From the sad face of the skies;
And life would have no joys at all,
Were there no watery eyes.
Love thou thy sorrow: grief shall bring
Its own excuse in after years;
The rainbow! - see how fair a thing
God hath built up from tears.
~ Henry S. Sutton

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Have you asked to be made like your Lord? Have you longed for the fruit of the Spirit, and have you prayed for sweetness and gentleness and love? Then fear not the stormy tempest that is at this moment sweeping through your life. A blessing is in the storm , and there will be the rich fruitage in the "afterward."
~ Henry Ward Beecher

Rejoicing,
for the blessing of the rainbow...

Marla