In 1961 I went to work for Miss Vogel in Churchville, Maryland. I had been recommended by a neighbor, who was a good friend of my dad. Miss Vogel had fifty acres of property with a five-story stone manor house built in 1770. I worked for her full-time in the summer and Saturdays during the school year. She had about seven acres to mow with gardens, walkways, and boxwood mazes. I had to edge flowerbeds and mow grass all summer. But springtime was the most important. The garden club would make their annual pilgrimage to the gardens to inspect her prize-winning irises planted in narrow beds for close-up viewing. In the fall, under Miss Vogel’s close supervision, I would dig up each bulb, label it, and store it in a burlap bag in the root cellar. Those ugly brown bulbs in burlap bags hung on a nail all winter. In the spring, I would bring them out and plant them in a precise location (under Miss Vogel’s supervision) in the cool, damp ground. And then, the magic of God’s creation would begin. Under the warm sun, a transformation occurred. Those ugly bulbs became beautiful flowers! Hey, on Easter Sunday morning some two thousand years ago, Jesus Christ came up out of the grave! And He promised that believers in Him would also resurrect. Someday, our ugly, corrupted, mortal bodies will be changed and come up out of their resting places, just like those iris bulbs, to new life … life eternal! Paul said in Philippians 3:10, “That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death.” If we are born into God’s forever family, when we die, we will not remain dead, we will live again! We will live in resurrected power and glory! What a day that will be! I am looking forward to that day. Are you?
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