I saw a flower…
I saw a flower the other day, and it was blooming between the rocks. Somehow, against all odds, it had grown through a crevice in the stone, and was thriving. Its giant yellow blooms seemed to proclaim against all odds that life was worth living.
Is your life worth living?
Those simple blossoms have stayed with me. Have begged the questions: Do I embrace life with as much enthusiasm as a yellow flower? Do I shimmer and glow, filled with joy and pride to live each moment gifted to me? Do I press through against the challenges secure in the truth that I was designed to bloom?
What sobering thoughts and questions. I, of all people, ought to know the truth in those questions, and I ought to be overcome with pride that my life is lived just like the simple flower. However, I do not, and I have not. I forgot that I was designed for such a thing, that it would be worth the fight, that I ought to live, until my dying breath, just like the little flower amongst the rocks.
This little flower, in all of her glory, is living an example of gratitude and praise. She’s not shriveled, resentful, and bitter because of the work it took to become beautiful. She embraces it. And so will I.
“He will give you a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of joy instead of mourning, and a garment of praise instead of a spirit of heaviness” Isaiah 61:3 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah+61%3A3&version=KJV
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