Blue

I find it interesting that when we find ourselves feeling down or depressed; that we use the color “blue” to describe our mood. I mean, there’s even an entire genre of music dedicated to it: BLUES!

West of the mountains in the Pacific Northwest, we have a particular way of describing our winters: WET!. They are wet, damp, cold, dreary, overcast, dark and grey. I know we don’t have it too bad; it doesn’t get really all that cold here, we don’t get much snow, and it never rains all that hard. But it is wet and grey almost all of the time.

Mid to late Autumn, Winter, and early Spring has a way of making people around here feeling depressed and ecstatic with the mere thought of Spring’s true arrival sometime in mid April.

I know that I live for the trees to be green again, for the smell of freshly cut grass, for the bloom of tulips, but more than anything the bright blue sky, that mysterious yellow light in the sky, and the warmth of the Springtime air on my skin.

So when I think about feeling blue, I think of Springtime and happiness!

Today the sky is energetically blue and I could’t feel better about it! The sun is shining in my ‘over-exposed-to-darkness’ eyes and I feel just fine! And even though it’s late February, I can feel just a little bit of the sun’s warmth penetrating through my long sleeved shirt and I feel like I have arrived home after being gone for far too long.

So when I say that I am blue, I am not sad at all. I am really quite happy.

When I am sad and depressed, I prefer to use the word “grey”.

But even when the skies are grey, the rain is falling, and the air is cold; I can still be sure that God is sovereign and in control and in His time He will make everything new once again- not just for Springtime and Summer- but for eternity!

And because of that, whether it’s November or February, I can still have a good day and feel rather BLUE!