All the flowering trees and shrubs are running about 4-6 weeks early this year.  Including my Golden Rain-tree just outside the kitchen window.  Joy-maker.

Deuteronomy 32.1-3 NLT  

“Listen, O heavens, and I will speak!

Hear, O earth, the words that I say!

Let my teaching fall on you like rain;

let my speech settle like dew.

Let my words fall like rain on tender grass,

like gentle showers on young plants.

I will proclaim the name of the Lord;

how glorious is our God!”

Joel 2.21-24 The Message

Fear not, Earth! Be glad and celebrate!

God has done great things.

Fear not, wild animals!

The fields and meadows are greening up.

The trees are bearing fruit again:

a bumper crop of fig trees and vines!

Children of Zion, celebrate!

Be glad in your God.

He’s giving you a teacher

to train you how to live right—

Teaching, like rain out of heaven, showers of words

to refresh and nourish your soul, just as he used to do.

And plenty of food for your body—silos full of grain,

casks of wine and barrels of olive oil.

Showers. of. Blessing.  We neeeeeeeeed!  :)