Tag: wildflowers
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The Gift of Mothers and Mountains: Covered in Love
I’ve been inspired lately by mountains with my recent visit to Monte Sano. Mountains are awe-inspiring, majestic, and they cover about 24% of the earth’s surface. Taking in this breath taking natural wonder, I was reminded of the beauty and the majesty of mothers. Both mountains and mothers both possess great strength and stability as…
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The Gift of Stillness: Growing For God’s Glory
Have you ever noticed the stillness of a flower? I don’t mean a lack of movement, but rather, a lack of striving. Flowers don’t strive; they just grow. Flowers don’t grow to please man or earn love; they grow for God’s glory; they grow to reflect the love of their Creator. This is what it…
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The Gift of Joy: Changing Your Perspective
See all those colorful wildflowers? For months leading up to that morning, nothing but grass filled the entire field. Rain, ice, snow, and eventually the hot sun all came before the beautiful, color filled field of wildflowers. That field was always a garden; it simply wasn’t in season. According to my perspective, that field was…
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The Gift of Joy: Becoming Your Own Brand of Beautiful
I looked at all the little wildflowers around me, the same flowers many would walk past without noticing, and others would call weeds. The sun had just risen, and it was casting its golden light over the field of flowers. They looked so full of joy. It was almost as if they knew just how…
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The Gift of Wildflowers
My mom lives near this wildflower garden, one of my favorite little places in town. For months I’ve asked her “Have the wildflowers bloomed yet?” “Not yet.” She kept replying. “It’s not hot enough.”Wildflowers grow from the heat of the summer, and we too grow from heat. We can’t expect to live a sheltered life…
