Romans 8:17

  I am sharing Christ's inheritance.
  "And if children (of God), then heirs--heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified together." NKJV
  "And since we are his children, we are his heirs. In fact, together with Christ we are heirs of God's glory. But if we are to share his glory, we must also share his suffering." JCB

  It's taken me a while to think about how I want to explore this affirmation. Being able to throw the kitchen window open to a lovely, sunny day has proven to be a bit of a delightful distraction. There's birds singing. The scent of new growth and moist earth fills the house. The hush of a gentle breeze through naked tree tops is music for the soul. It wafts into the heavens to herd linen white clouds across a blue, watercolour wash sky.
  It makes it hard to want to explore suffering.
  So maybe I want to think about Christ's glory, the love that overcame all obstacles to unite us with our Father in heaven; the love that overcame the grave to give us the gift of God's presence, the Holy Spirit.
  Maybe it's a day to be thankful.
  Maybe it's a day to simply be in the moment, this first day of May that has brought a reluctant Spring out of its hiding place with the flip of a calendar's page.