Photo provided by Donna Rogers
Have you ever gone outside in the summer and
noticed the dandelions in the yard?
Each year there seems to be one that pops
up somewhere in the yard and suddenly
you go outside and there are dandelions
growing everywhere.
My neighbor passed away a few years ago
and there was very little management of his
yard since then. Last year his yard
became covered with dandelions. Instantly
we knew in a very short time there would
be dandelions covering our yard also.
Why is that? Why do the most beautiful flowers
such as dailies, roses, and iris take forever to
spread and yet a dandelion just blows in the wind
and plants pop up everywhere?
Our lives are so much the same.
It is so difficult to find people who are
willing to cultivate their lives, get rid of the
old weeds of sin, arrogance and selfishness.
Yet it is so easy to find those who live their
lives haphazardly. In doing so, they are spreading
seeds all along the pathway and when those plants
spring up they naturally follow after the seed
they sprang up from.
The daisy, full of vibrant color and great beauty:
also is full of seeds. These seeds will reproduce
if the dandelion or other weeds don't choke it out.
They will populate if they are planted in good
soil and watered. They will grow and become
vibrant and also produce seed that produce
more glorious daisies.
My prayer is that we start to cultivate the ground and
plant seeds that will spring forth with character and
Godliness
Doing this takes time.
It takes patience.
It takes prayer and the watering of tears.
What would you rather be, a daisy or a dandelion.
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