On a walk where I was encouraged to give myself permission to slow down or even stop to notice God's creation, I looked down and saw ground cover -- lots and lots of ground cover. On first glance, it was like, "Oh, just a bunch of green ground cover." But then I continued to look and noticed the cutest little blue flowers... (maybe you can't even see them, but they are really there!)
And there were also little red flowers!
I would have not even noticed them if I had moved too quickly because the first thing I noticed was just how much GREEN I saw everywhere!
And then I realized, how often I look at life and see so much pain, struggle, death, and brokenness that I almost don't even notice the little flowers of beauty Jesus has placed in the midst of what seems overwhelmingly sad.
Some of the beautiful flowers I see in my life right now are:
- the moments when I get to touch the pregnant bellies of two dear friends and feel the little life growing inside of them
- a chance to teach some Korean neighbor kids how to bake banana muffins
- the ridiculous laughter that my husband and I share over the most random things
- a nephew who thinks I'm a princess because he saw me in my wedding dress last year
- and reflecting with a friend on God's healing and restoration of addiction and other strongholds in her life.
