I love seasons. Perhaps it is because I am easily bored that I revel whenever a new season comes. Sometimes I think about the possibility of a world without seasons and think how monotonous that would be. God could have done that and we would have never known the difference. Yet in His wisdom and creativity, He blessed us with the starkness of winter that gives forth to the beauty of spring. That is a picture of one of my mother's irises. I moved bulbs from her yard to mine right before she relocated to heaven. Every year without fail they produce these beautiful purple blooms for me to remember her and her love for flowers. To remember the things she liked to do and how happy the simple things made her. I want to be like that. Happy with the simple things.
These cone flowers were also in her yard. My stepdad, Shelby was a gardener. He could make anything grow and he packaged these up for me from little seeds and told me how to care for them. I remember him as they grow and spread each year.
This is the most beautiful of flowers that entered our world 3 1/2 months ago. She is the reason why ruthless pruning of my life is so necessary. Little eyes are watching. All of us have someone watching us. All of us have the opportunity to be beauty to a life that needs to see Christ. I want my life to bear much fruit to His glory. I want to expend my life in such a way that a legacy of beauty is left behind. For that to happen I must be intentional in my living.
These cone flowers were also in her yard. My stepdad, Shelby was a gardener. He could make anything grow and he packaged these up for me from little seeds and told me how to care for them. I remember him as they grow and spread each year. It's amazing to me how God created these beautiful flowers and if you look closely at the center of them you will see they are filled with little seeds that fall to the ground and reproduce. That is what the believer's life should resemble. Beauty that reproduces itself to grow new believers. I so love that about the Lord. How He uses physical truths to teach us spiritual realities.
But nature untamed can be ugly. I have to frequently nurture those flowers by cutting off the dead and scraggly stems. My life needs the same care. There are things in me that I don't like. Things that are NOT beautiful and I pray that I am as ruthless with the pruning on myself as I am with these flowers.
This is the most beautiful of flowers that entered our world 3 1/2 months ago. She is the reason why ruthless pruning of my life is so necessary. Little eyes are watching. All of us have someone watching us. All of us have the opportunity to be beauty to a life that needs to see Christ. I want my life to bear much fruit to His glory. I want to expend my life in such a way that a legacy of beauty is left behind. For that to happen I must be intentional in my living. Jesus is my example. He lived a life of perfect beauty and the world pressed in hard on Him leaving a perfume behind. That is my desire - that I be the fragrance of Christ. In this beautiful season of spring....on this most heart-rending and yet hope-filled of days - Good Friday - my prayer for you is that beauty moves from your vision to your heart and from your heart to your life. And in so doing He will receive all glory and honor and praise.
I love you, my friends.
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