This pretty purple plant blooms year after year reminding me of the beauty in God’s plan.
Every year about this time, this plant with dainty little purple flowers blooms underneath my oak tree. My hubby asks me every year what it is. I mean it’s always so lush and bushy and it fills in a blank space. It’s hard to believe that I didn’t plant it or in no way do I tend to it.
I have the same answer for him every year. “I have no idea.” I haven’t even tried to look it up. I just let it serve as a reminder to me every spring, that God has a plan and I am usually clueless about what it is, but it’s beautiful like this little plant. It grows in complete shade, yet blooms anyway. I can’t tell you the countless dollars I’ve spent on every variety of hydrangea trying to get them to bloom under those trees. There’s just not enough sun. But this little guy, blooms faithfully with little light and no care.
This moss is thriving on a rock.
This moss is thriving on a rock. How does it get its nutrients? Rocks aren’t living things; yet this moss is almost covering it. Now, I’m sure some geologist could explain the scientific reasons behind the growth, but here’s the deal; if you have ever tried to get something to grow, you know it takes work and nurture, water and fertilizer. When something grows and thrives completely on its own and it’s beautiful, that makes me take notice.
Sometimes God plants situations and people in our lives that simply thrive for no good reason. We don’t necessarily try to make them work. They just do.
Have you ever had a co-worker that is your complete opposite? I mean you may disagree on everything from politics to pizza toppings, but somehow you work beautifully together. Sometimes, you may even forge a strong friendship with this person which would normally be against all odds.
Sometimes neighbors can be like that. You wouldn’t choose them as friends. Maybe there’s an age difference or lifestyle difference, but yet, you somehow become friends.
There are times in my life when I have found the people who annoy me the most have been put in my path to teach me some kind of lesson about myself. They are sometimes not comfortable lessons and I may not have chosen to learn them on my own, but when confronted, I had to sink or swim. In the end, something beautiful came out of it.
God’s ways are mysterious and very different from ours. The Bible says, “My thoughts are nothing like your thoughts,”says the Lord. And my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine.” Isaiah 55:8
If we are able to accept and maybe even embrace, (I know this is much easier said than done.), that He has a plan and it’s good, then maybe we can take a second look at the annoying co-worker, the strange new neighbor or anyone that we wouldn’t normally choose to hang out with and ask ourselves what this person may be trying to teach us about ourselves or what should we be teaching them?
Who knows, maybe something beautiful will take root and bloom. I think it’s worth a try. What do you think about what God plants? I’d love to hear from you.
Have an awesome day!
Wendy 🙂