Reflections ... It is not over until it is over

I welcome the warmer weather; I always do. The cold was getting to me, more than it used to; I suppose it has to do with me getting older.
As much as I welcome the warmer weather, I have, in recent years, learned not to assume that it is necessarily here to stay. I remember from years ago making declarations as to how glad I was that winter was finally over. Then the cold came back. After having declared springtime three times, I stopped declaring.
It is not over until it is over; and sometimes it is not even over when it is over. That is a lesson many of us have learned in life. We think that we have worked through whatever we had to work through; and then it turns out that some stone was left unturned after all, and something creeps out from underneath it.
Many of us have had to learn the hard way that it is not necessarily over just because it is over. In fact, all Christians have to learn that lesson, all through life.