08.27.06
Every Good and Perfect Gift Comes from Above
Yesterday morning, I stepped out on my front porch to find this flower that had bloomed overnight. 
But today it is completely withered away.
I couldn’t help but think of the passage that reads like this:
“Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?”
I think it’s pretty cool that God creates beauty just for His pleasure. I imagine there are flowers blooming in all parts of the world, even in places where there is no human to enjoy the splendor. But God allows it to be even if it’s only for one day like the flower that bloomed on my front porch. I feel like it was a special gift for me that morning.
Here are a couple pictures I took at Turkey. It was this past spring, and the wild poppies were in full bloom decorating the empty fields and springing up between the rocks of tombs gracing them with their beauty, never mind that there was no one there to see or tend to them.
I wonder what other special gifts God gives us each day that we are too busy to stop and see?
