2. GOD’S WAYS A lesson from Mother Nature A lesson from Mother Nature

3. NAHUM 1:3 The LORD is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: the LORD hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.

4. I recollect, when as a lad, sitting on a mountain, and watching a storm as it came up the valley.

5. The heavens were filled with blackness, and the earth was shaken by the voice of thunder.

6. It seemed as though that fair landscape was utterly changed, and its beauty gone never to return.

7. But the storm swept on, and passed out of the valley…

8. …And if I had sat in the same place on the following day, and said: “Where is that terrible storm with all its terrible blackness?”

9. …The grass would have said, “Part of it is in me,”

10. And the daisy would have said, “Part of it is in me,”

11. And the trees and flowers and everything that grows out of the ground would have said, “Part of the storm is incandescent in me.”

12. All of GOD’S beauty Comes alive when you ask Jesus into your heart

13. Have you longed for the fruit of the Spirit, and have you prayed for sweetness and gentleness and love? Have you asked to be made like your Lord?

14. …Then fear not any stormy tempest that may sweep through your life.

15. Hebrews 12:7 If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? A blessing is in the storm, and there will be the rich fruitage in the “afterward.”

16. The flowers live by the tears that fall from the sad face of the skies; And life would have no joys at all, were there no watery eyes. POEM BY HENRY S. SUTTON

17. See how fair a thing God hath built up from tears. The Rainbow!The Rainbow!The Rainbow!The Rainbow! The Rainbow! Love thou thy sorrow; grief shall bring its own excuse in after years:

18. RFHADLEY.COM Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh: for childhood and youth are vanity. Ecclesiastes 11:10

19. RFHADLEY.COM And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. Revelation 21:4

20. ENCOURAGE SOMEONE TODAY… SHARE THIS MESSAGE! RFHADLEY.COM Romans 8:18