Redemption's Second Best Hue...

Happy Ascension Day! Acts 1:9-11After He had said this, they watched as He was taken up, and a cloud hid Him from their sight. They were looking intently into the sky as He was going, when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them. “Men of Galilee,” they said, “why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen Him go into heaven.” Isa.55:12You will go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and hills will burst into song before you, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands. Celebrating green, among other colors in today's post;sharing a few shots from an excursion yesterday, with a friend andkindred spirit, we oohed and aahed and squealed and sighed to our heart's contentat details we didn't need to explain... Redemption’s flood is red that flowed/flows for all at CalvarySo that we who are/were dead in sin might live eternallyFor, all who repent and believe by faith have been made wholeThe grace of God through Christ achieves hope’s anchor for the soul But, for the earth reborn in spring, redemption’s flood is greenA death-defying deluge thundering from founts unseenA tidal wave of emerald as hallelujahs pealThrough fields and woodlands heralding their Orchestrator’s zeal Trees clap their hands, grass-cushioned grandstands beckon everyoneThe river’s wrinkled sashes twinkle silver in the sunTulips in bold profusion bloom, as bud after bud popsOn verdant, velvet banks are strewn pools of forget-me-nots Fair nature celebrates redemption’s second-best hue; greenRegaling trees with melodies where bare branches had beenUnfettering a plush, lush splurge, surging from east to westWhile rabbit hops from bush to bush, a nibble-happy guest/pest © Janet Martin