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Sunday Flower:  Crown of Thorns

3/29/2015

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I haven't posted any flowers in a long while.  Here is one of my favorites.
This was my dad's Crown of Thorns plant.  It covered his desk, sprawling over his workspace,  soaking up the sunlight on the south side of his office, where the sun shone most brightly.  

Under this plant's ferocious gaze, Dad chatted on the phone, buying used hospital equipment like X-ray machines, Geiger meters and pancake probes and ultrasound machines.   He would load the heavy machinery up from metro hospitals, clean, repair, refurbish, and resell.   He loved that job.   It somehow gave him so much joy to take what someone considered "junk" machinery, and to work with it and recondition it and make it something valuable.   He frequently sold to hospitals in impoverished areas, or to countries that otherwise would never be able to afford something as expensive as an ultrasound machine.  He followed up with service plans, because he knew each machine so well, and kept them in good working order.  He took "junk" and helped save lives with it. 

When Dad passed away, I took his thorny plant home.  
It's in my studio now, and still sprawling, covering the desktop, producing thousands of thorns and occasional tiny red drops of flowers.

I like this plant's daily reminder that somehow, God does the same kind of job that my dad did so well.  God takes the thorns and the garbage and "junk" of my life, and with his tender care, he makes it into something worthwhile.  He knows my faults, he can correct them.  He knows my brokenness, and somehow, he can find a place for me anyway.  He knows that someone, somewhere needs me...
And so he turns me into something valuable.  
Thorns and all. 

  




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Found in the Forest

2/15/2015

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I found this flower out in the shadows of the woods.   He faithfully turns up every summer.  He stays in the filtered and dark places, the forgotten and lonely places, raising his leaves like flags to the world.  

Jack in the Pulpit, they call him.  Three leaves clustered together for the Trinity.  He holds those Trinity leaves up all summer, in rain or in wind, even until the frost comes and changes the flower to a heart of bright, blood red seeds.

After that, he fades away in the snow. 

But I know he'll be back around the time that Easter returns.  
Just watch.  

He's faithful.
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Sunday Flowers For You

1/17/2015

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Someone wants to give you flowers!  
So this Morning Glory and  Brown Eyed Susan are just for you today.  
Have a wonderful Sunday!
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Sunday Flowers For You

1/3/2015

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Sunday Flower for You

12/28/2014

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A kind neighbor left this beauty on our doorstep last summer.  It's for you!
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Unopened Gifts

12/20/2014

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Today's Sunday Flowers for you are unopened gifts.  Oooh, the anticipation!  Waiting is so difficult...
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Sunday Flowers for You

12/13/2014

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Wildflowers are the sweetest.  Here is some wild Columbine for you.  Hope you like it as much as the butterflies and hummingbirds do.  
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Sunday Flowers

12/7/2014

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You are loved.
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Sunday Flower for You

11/30/2014

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A Sunday flower just for you.  Pass it along to someone you love! 
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Sunday Flowers Just for You

11/14/2014

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I wish you a beautiful Sunday!  
Let go of your worries and busy-ness today, or you may miss the incredible small things all around you.  This beautiful bloom is one of my favorites.  I would not have found her if I hadn't been quietly soul searching.  She was in the middle of a large garden, where she was surrounded by flowers more showy than herself.   She didn't seem important at all, until I sat myself down for a bit, and took some time to really look at her.  I found a treasure of beauty when I took the time to search.  I know a few people like this flower.
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A Flower Just for You

11/9/2014

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Dear Readers,  
I'd like to give you a flower.  Actually, I'd like to give you a whole armload of them.  I am kind of obsessed with their beauty.  When I was a kid, I worked for years in a commercial flower garden.  I pulled weeds, and dug rain trenches and battled horseflies...it was hard and sweaty work.  But every time it rained, it was my job and incredible privilege to take off my shoes, and walk barefoot through the puddles of the soggy flower farm, gently shaking the raindrops off of the petals.  When the sun comes out after a rain, the sun's rays magnify through any droplets of water on the blossoms, and cause small burn spots.  No one wanted that!  So, I actually was paid to be the Rain Drops Shaken Off the Petals Girl.  What a glorious job.  Every person in the universe should have a task like that, at least once in his or her life.   
I may possibly have twenty years' worth of my flower photography hobby archived on my computer.  In honor of that, and my intense love of flowers, I will give you a bloom every Sunday...
Collect them.  Enjoy them!  They are just for you.

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