Ahhhhh. (~sigh of relief~) 
My computer is computing today without a hitch or a glitch…we have a conflictless cyber day. Here’s hoping the real world will be as glitchless and trouble free.
Earlier this morning I took a walk around the back of our property. Mimosa’s are in full bloom in Mississippi, and I wanted to capture a close-up shot or two of the delightful, fluff-ball flowers and frond-type leaves that give them a distinctive tropical flair. My main mission failed (another electronic boo boo on my part), but on my way back to the house I spotted red mixed in a stand of weeds gone awry. (Sadly our landscape has been a haven for weeds for the past few years. We simply can’t keep up with flower beds anymore.) This is what I saw:
As I looked in disbelief at these beautiful, deep-crimson day lilies showing off in a long unattended flower bed, I thought “we can always find beauty shining through life’s tough spots” if only we keep our spiritual eyes open and our hope within alive. (I speak of the hope we have in Jesus, if we are God’s child.) I wonder how many of God’s blessings, great and small, we’ve missed, because we were focused on circumstances instead of hope. Much like the day lily whose magnificent bloom will fade throughout the day and be forever gone tomorrow, some blessings are opportunities we cannot revisit if we pass them by.
I’m off to the post office to mail a box of love to my DS and his beautiful family.
Until later…
remember…
We can choose to see the blessings mixed among difficult circumstances, or we can choose to pass them by. Wouldn’t you rather be blessed? I would. I am.
