Good Morning Beautiful Friend,
This past summer God has taught me in a very unique way. He taught me all sorts of lessons through my flowers and they always seemed to come at just the right time. Last month’s lesson was given to me through a flower that I didn’t plant. I planted cheery yellow snapdragons during the summer in a pot on my porch and have loved watching them all grow together. As I was bringing my pumpkin harvest onto my porch the other day I noticed a new splash of yellow on my porch. Somehow one of those little yellow snapdragons escaped the pot and planted itself on my porch.
By the time I noticed this lone flower it was already blooming and thriving despite the fact that I haven’t watered or tended to it at all. The fact that it is somehow rooted on my concrete porch and thriving is truly one of those things that I can’t explain but God knows exactly how it got there and how it has survived.
Do you ever have times in life when you just feel lost and aren’t sure quite where to go next? I know I have!
I’ve related to the flowers newly planted in a big pot of soil with other flowers and I’ve been the lone flower who was planted outside the pot.
I’ve been planted in those situations where it’s all new but easy to put down roots and situations where all I see is concrete and I have no idea where I’m going to root myself.
In either situation we tend to ask a lot of questions but it isn’t until we go to our Heavenly Father that we’re truly given the answers. It isn’t until we get past all our human questioning and remember that HE is taking care of us that we really begin to thrive again.
If you had asked me six years ago when my oldest son was born, if I was going to homeschool, I would have told you “no.” When God convicted me three years ago and called me to teach my children at home I felt very much like that flower on the porch trying to find a place to root in concrete. I wasn’t homeschooled growing up and didn’t have friends who homeschooled. So I started praying and asking God how I was supposed to put down roots in this new-to-me world of homeschooling. Thankfully I didn’t have long to wait- shortly after I started praying He planted me in a pretty pot with a few other homeschool moms. The word thankful doesn’t even begin to describe how blessed I feel by the women God has given me to walk this journey with. I think the best part about these women is that although it was easy for us to root into the flower pot soil together, we all share our faith in God and still look to Him to water us and give us His light to light our way!
Without a doubt, I know there will be other times in life where I feel like I’m being planted all by myself again but I love knowing that as long as I am trusting God, He will provide a place for me to put down roots and will provide the light and water for me to thrive.
