A Message

A message so true I just had to pass it on.... 

The past is the past...learn from from it. 

We can plan for the future...to make for a better tomorrow. (note: plan is not the same as worry!)

BUT

We only can LIVE in the present.

So do it.   LIVE TODAY my friends!

Bloom!

Yesterday, when putting something away in our storage area, I noticed a bright pink metal flower container that I had stashed away several years ago.    I wondered if I might be able to find a few flowers in my yard that I could put in it.  You see, during most springs and summers....I normally buy lots of flowering plants and herbs and I try to weed and keep clean a very special perennial flower bed in the corner of our backyard.   But this spring and summer has been difficult for many reasons and those things just didn't get done.  I went ahead and grabbed the container, a pair of scissors and headed out to this special garden bed.   

This little corner garden didn't look special any longer.   It had become overgrown with volunteer trees and many weeds.   Most worrisome was a nasty vine that was appearing to choke out my special plants that were trying so hard to survive.   Quite honestly, it made be sad that I had neglected that garden so much this year.   I poked through the weeds and lo and behold, I did find some blooms among all the ugliness.   Those special plants had persevered through the tough environment and produced blooms!    I clipped them, brought them inside and placed them in the water filled container.   This bright pink container has the word bloom! written near the top. How appropriate!  It cheered me up and I realized there was a message in all of this.  And of course, I'd thought I'd share it with you.

 

Life gets messy sometimes - and ICE doesn't help.    We get overwhelmed - we fear our future - we question our next steps.   Just like my beloved plants in the corner garden,  it feels like we get choked out with weeds and vines.  We don't know if we will make it.   But what did my plants do in the midst of all that chaos?  They went ahead and bloomed.    They may not be the biggest and best blooms ever- but they BLOOMED.   They persevered.  They survived.  They cheered me.   They retaught me a lesson.    How awesome is that! 

So ICEr's and friends - persevere - and bloom regardless of the circumstances.   You know you we can get through it.   

Remember, it is our choice - just bloom.