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| My "impatiens" |
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| Debbie's "butter and eggs" |
Unplanned Treasures
I'd like to share with you a couple of special gems that showed up in our lives these past few weeks.
One is the perfect little lavender impatiens plant above. It popped up out nearly out of nowhere. I discovered it by accident, as it peeked out between two larger astilbe and hosta plants under my hanging plant along the front walkway of my house. It must have come from a seed dropped from last year's hanging plant, as this year's plant is a rich deep red Impatiens. I was checking for stray weeds the morning I discovered it, pushing aside the present plantings to find any rogues. "Surprise!" it said to me. "I came along unplanned, just to brighten your day."
That was last week's (week of 9-11) discovery. This past Saturday morning my daughter/housemate Debbie came into the house where I sat reading the morning's Post-Crescent newspaper. "Mom," she spouted out, "you've just got to see this!" She dragged me out into the front yard, to the area where a ground cover blankets the front ditch. There in the middle of the crowd, poking its little blossom upwards in a spike, sat a gorgeous yellow and orange blossom, a common weed called "Butter and eggs" (2nd photo above). Surrounded by a mist of early morning dew--nature's framework--, this was her special gift from God. A weed is merely a plant that someone doesn't want there.
Such are the joys of nature. This is God at His best, telling us who in really in control of this fruitful, abundant world and reminding us that His love is ever-present and undeniable in a world that in recent months has left us in Wisconsin politically shaken, wondering where common sense, civility, and good government are hiding. We may shake our fists and yell at each other. Our Supreme Court justices may push around and choke each other on our financially shaken, politically divisive, and contentious swing state. But God is in His heaven, and He shall not be moved.
Thanking You, Lord, for the reminder,
Margaret
