As usual, I go to the river in the Spring. All kinds of paths run next to the river just about everywhere. Life runs in the river and in the Spring, it is one fast rushing waterway! I love it. It’s my favorite Spring hangout. I’ll go out of my way after church on Sundays, just to meander along the river in the sunshine.
This picture is what I saw last Sunday. Sunflowers—or are they Sonflowers? Of course, they have to be yellow. These sonflowers look like a smile as they lift their heads to heaven. And they grow wild all along the river and the in the forested trails in this part of the world. What cheerful things they are! It reminds me of when Jesus said—that even King Solomon, in all his riches, was not clothed with the majesty that these flowers wear.
I guess we can take a lesson from these flowers. No one cultivates them but God. Yet, they herald the warm season: the time of living life in the great outdoors. These flowers do what God wants them to do. They look beautiful, grow towards the sun and smile wide. God gets the glory.
Maybe if we hang out with them, we will take time out of our busy schedules to learn to reflect God’s glory, too, do you think?
“…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” Matthew 6:28-29.
These smiling harbingers of spring are balsam arrowroot. I also look forward to them every year. “These flowers do what God wants them to do.” I like that! I need their attitude!