praise on display.

"For as the earth bursts with spring wildflowers,

and as a garden cascades with blossoms,

so the Master, God, brings righteousness into full bloom

and puts praise on display before the nations." -- isaiah 61.11, msg

"The created world itself can hardly wait for what's coming next. " -- romans 8.19, msg

(don't those little buds just SCREAM expectation??)

"Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?" -- matthew 6.28-30, esv